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AAQ Fact Sheet, includes mission statement, project descriptions with images and contact information (pdf file)

Downloadable Articles About the AAQ

"Old Fabric Never Dies...It Doesn't Even Fade Away," Sherida Warner, The Daily Sentinel, Grand Junction, Colorado, December 2010 (pdf, 3.5MB)

"Can You Hear the Voices in the Stitches?" Betty Londergan, What Gives 365 blog, September 2010 (pdf, 603 KB)

"A Virtual Quilt Tour: Secrets of The Quilt Index," Meg Cox, Quiltposium, Winter 2009 (pdf, 2.3 MB)

"Saving Quilters' Stories: Ten Years and Counting," Karen Musgrave, Quilters Newsletter magazine, October/November 2009 (pdf, 322 KB)

Quilting Arts TV, Summary of segment about the AAQ in Series 500, recorded September 2009, (pdf, 135KB)

"Support the Alliance for American Quilts," Mimi Shimp, American Quilt Retailer, May 2009 (pdf, 1.2MB)

"Why Quilts Matter," Bernard Herman, The Courier Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, March 2002 (pdf, 71 KB)

AAQ Description (49-words)

The Alliance for American Quilts, a national nonprofit organization, supports and develops projects to document, preserve, and share the history of quilts and quiltmakers. The Alliance brings together institutions and individuals from the creative, scholarly and business worlds of quiltmaking to advance the recognition of quilts in American culture.

AAQ Description (24-words)

The Alliance for American Quilts, a national nonprofit organization, supports and develops projects to document, preserve, and share the history of quilts and quiltmakers.

Core Project Descriptions

The Quilt Index, http:/www.quiltindex.org
A national online database of quilt records bringing new access to detailed information and images of quilts from museums, historical societies, guilds, documentation projects and private collections.
Partners: MATRIX: Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University and the Michigan State University Museum

Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories, http://www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/qsos/
Grassroots oral history project preserving the stories of today’s quiltmakers from all over the US and abroad.
Archived at the Library of Congress’ American Folklife Center

Quilt Treasures, http://www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/treasures/
Multi-media portraits profiling key quilt revival pioneers including quiltmakers, historians, collectors, teachers, business leaders.
Partners: MATRIX: Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University and the Michigan State University Museum

Boxes Under the Bed, http://www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/boxes/
Rescue and recovery efforts to save quilt ephemera, preserving items families and collectors find in boxes of quilts.
Partner: Winedale Historical Complex, a division of The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin

Contact Information

For more information, visit our website at http://www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/

Or contact:

Amy E. Milne, Executive Director:

The Alliance for American Quilts
125 S. Lexington Avenue, Suite 101
Asheville, NC 28801

Phone: (828) 251-7073
Please call if you need to send a fax.