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   from the issue of February 24, 2005

     
 
Symposium looks at collectors, museums and artists

"Collectors, Collecting, and Collections," the second biennial symposium organized by the International Quilt Study Center will be Feb. 24-26. The symposium focuses on the phenomenon of collecting, particularly the collecting of quilts. Participants will engage in discussions about the ways collectors influence museums, markets, artists and source communities.

The keynote address, "From Hand to Hand, From Time to Time: Creating, Collecting and Caring," by Russell W. Belk, Eldon Tanner professor of business at the University of Utah, will begin at 11 a.m. Feb. 25 in the Nebraska Union auditorium. There is a charge of $15 per person for non-registered participants for this lecture.

Belk's areas of expertise are consumer behavior, qualitative research and marketing. He is president of the Society of Marketing and Development and past president of the Association for Consumer Research.

The Guerrilla Girls will open the symposium with a presentation at 7 p.m. Feb. 24 in the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, 12th and R streets.

A group of anonymous female artists who coalesced in 1985 out of frustration over the lack of representation of women artists in most influential museums and art galleries, the Guerrilla Girls assume the names of dead women artists and appear in public wearing gorilla masks to keep the focus on the issues, not on their personalities or their own work.

Their presentation takes the audience through their 18-year history confronting discrimination in the world of art and culture. A limited number of seats are available to the public on a first-come basis. Registered participants will have reserved seating.

Concurrent sessions will be held morning and afternoon Feb. 25 and on the morning of Feb. 26.

There will be a special tour of the exhibition "The Collector's Eye: Amish Quilts from IQSC Collections" Feb. 25 at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. Collectors Jonathan Holstein and Henry Barber will lead the tour beginning at 4 p.m. That evening, after a panel discussion on "Collecting Art Quilts: Issues and Perspectives," there will be a reception and viewing of contemporary quilts from the John M. Walsh III Collection in the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery in the Home Economics Building.

Advance registration is $125 and includes a luncheon and curator-led tours of two related exhibitions on campus. UNL students may attend the conference free of charge, but must pre-register.

For more information or to register, call the symposium coordinator, Kathy Moore, at (402) 472-7232 or visit the symposium Web site at http://quiltstudy.unl.edu.

Sponsors are the International Quilt Study Center, the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, the College of Education and Human Sciences, the Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design, the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, the College of Business Administration, the Department of Marketing and the Women's Studies Program, and by the American Quilt Study Group.


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