Upcoming Events
The Alliance is coming to Raleigh, Omaha (ticket sales opening soon) and New York City in 2012! Click logos below for details on each event and how to get your tickets today!
And if you or your guild, shop or company would like to host or sponsor a
Quilters Take [Your City] event, please contact us!
Past Events
On August 5-6, 2011 to showcase its dynamic programs, and help pay for them too, the Alliance put together a fun collection of three related but separate events: "Quilters Take Manhattan."
Modern Stories: Documenting the Modern Quilt Movement:
Friday, August 5, 2011, 7:00-10:00 p.m.This event was an intimate gathering at a Garment District loft and included a panel of in-the-know bloggers, fabric designers and A-list quilters discussing the Modern Quilt movement. Also, guests witnessed Victoria Findlay Wolfe (Bumble Beans Inc.), custom quiltmaker and co-founder of the New York City Metro Area Modern Quilt Guild and Bumble Beans Basics charity project being interviewed for the Alliance’s oral history project, Quilters’ S.O.S. – Save Our Stories (Q.S.O.S.). Our panel was moderated by Jackie Kunkel and panelists included Melanie Testa, Kim Hryniewicz, Jennifer Paganelli, John Adams and Nancy Soriano. Refreshments and door prizes.
Marianne & Jay on the Runway: A Quilter's Alliance of Fabric & Fashion
Saturday, August 6, 2011, 1:00-6:00 pm
Our biggest event in the series was held at F.I.T., the Fashion Institute of Technology and featured beloved quilt TV host Marianne Fons. Marianne lectured on “Why We Quilt,” and her daughter Mary Fons, a slam poet from Chicago who recently launched her own quilt TV show, “Quilty,” on the Internet followed in the program. Then, we met Jay McCarroll, first season Project Runway winner, who is now designing quilt fabric for FreeSpirit. Jay was interviewed for the Alliance’s prestigious Q.S.O.S. oral history project by quilt and media star Mark Lipinski, and took questions from the audience. The afternoon had it all: door prizes, refreshments, goody bags, and an amazing silent auction.
NY’s Ultimate Block Party: Cocktails at The City Quilter
Saturday, August 6, 2011, 7:30 - 9:00 pm
After our F.I.T. event we took a short walkto a unique cocktail party in the best and biggest quilt shop in Manhattan--The City Quilter. This just-expanded, eye-popping shop includes a new art gallery for quilts, where we viewed an exhibit by Japanese quilter Noriko Endo (work pictured at left). We nibbled on appetizers and drank wine, while rubbing elbows with Marianne and Mary Fons, Jay McCarroll and lots of surprise quilt celebs. Activities included live bidding in the first-ever show and auction of quilts made by board members of the Alliance for American Quilts.
Our Generous and Creative Gold Sponsors were:
“The Most Trusted Names in Quilting.”
“Better Cuts Make Better Quilts.”
“Perfectly Suited for Every Quilt Project.”
“Fabric for Quilters. By Quilters.”
Our generous venue sponsors were:
“A Quilting Haven in NYC and Home of the Only Art Quilt Gallery in NY.”
“Original and Custom Quilts.”
Connected by Threads Events in Washington, D.C.
Held
March 2010
Thank you to all those who attended " Connected by Threads: a Celebration of Quilts, Quiltmakers and Quilt History"
Presented by the Alliance for American Quilts,
"Connected by Threads" included two special fundraising events: on Thursday, March 4, 2010 and a free public "Meet the Artists" event on Saturday, March 6.
Images: (left) "Cherished Times” by Carolyn Crump; (right) "Homage to
Bourglinster" (with detail below) by Gudrun Bechet. Copyrights held by artists.
Sponsors:
Lisa Ellis of the Sacred Threads Exhibit and maker of Art Call, the on-line artist registration, jurying and exhibit administration system. www.ellisquilts.com; and the Rowell Family Charities.