The success of an UNL employee art exhibition has led to a second, more focused show. Thirteen staff/faculty artists will be featured in the UNL Employee Quilt Show. The exhibition will show in two venues — April 26 to May 6 in the Nebraska Union Rotunda Gallery, and May 7-20 at the International Quilt Study […]
‘Quilts under the Microscope’ opens April 2 The International Quilt Study Center and Museum is offering a “whodunit” you can really wrap up with. Students in UNL’s graduate-level care and conservation of textiles course provided curatorial assistance to IQSC curators Marin Hanson and Patricia Crews to create the new exhibition, “Quilts Under the Microscope,” opening […]
Lynn Setterington’s quilts are dynamic combinations of cultures and community collaboration. An internationally known artist, instructor at Manchester Metropolitan University in Manchester, England, Setterington hand-stitches her passions into every quilt she makes. Setterington is a creative fellow in residence at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum through April 2, conducting research, developing samples for […]
An exhibition at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum is showcasing the threads that connect non-traditional quilts to historical design and the world of art. “Perspectives: Art, Craft, Design and the Studio Quilt” showcases the quilts of 21 contemporary artists from five nations. The exhibition was curated by Michael James, a studio quilter and […]
Quilts of 21 contemporary artists are on display at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum in the new exhibition “Perspectives: Art, Craft, Design and the Studio Quilt,” showing through May 9. The exhibition assembles quilts from the permanent collection of the IQSC complemented by several related works in various media owned by local collectors. […]
Marianne Fons, well-known to millions of quilters nationwide as co-editor in chief of Fons and Porter’s Love of Quilting magazine and co-host of the public television series of the same name, will speak Nov. 14 at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum. Her talk, “Why We Quilt,” begins at 3 p.m. Tickets are on […]
The exhibition, “Four-Part Harmony: The Linda Carlson Four-Block Quilt Collection,” will open Oct. 30 at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum. More than two dozen quilts will be shown in two rotations. The first rotation runs Oct. 30 through Jan. 10. The second rotation is Jan. 13 to March 28. Collector and author Linda […]
Climate change The College of Architecture offered a seminar, “Climate Change and the Physical Environment: Effect and Affect,” in September 2008. The two-day seminar, organized by Tim Hemsath, assistant professor of architecture, featured local and regional experts. Green building The International Quilt Study Center and Museum was honored April 19 as UNL’s first building to […]
In November, the International Quilt Study Center and Museum received a gift of 275 quilts with an estimated value of more than $1.2 million from the estate of collectors Sara Rhodes Dillow and Dr. Byron Dillow, who lived in Fremont. The gift, jointly announced by center director Patricia Crews and Clarence Castner, president of the […]
Head-on collisions of imagination and luxurious materials are credited for the creation of quilts in the new exhibition at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum. “A Fairyland of Fabrics: The Victorian Crazy Quilt,” on display at the museum through Oct. 25, features 19 one-of-a-kind Victorian-era quilts from the center’s collection. Beverly Gordon, professor of […]
