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from the issue of March 8, 2007
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British quilter to discuss U.K. craft March 19
Susan Marks, the International Quilt Study Center's 2007 visiting scholar, will present the lecture "Patchwork and Quilting in the United Kingdom Before the American Influence," at 9 a.m. March 19 in the Home Economics Building, room 31.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Marks is a visiting lecturer in art history for the University of Sunderland, United Kingdom. She holds the position of chair of selectors for the British Quilt Study Group.
A move to Northumberland in northeast England 20 years ago - an area with a rich tradition of patchwork and quilting - stimulated Marks' passion for, and interest in, these crafts.
Marks completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors in sculpture in 1997 and doctorate in art history in 2006, both from the University of Sunderland. Her doctoral dissertation examined the positioning of quilts within the Visual Arts with particular reference to contemporary quilt making practice.
She is a frequent contributor of articles and reviews to Selvedge, The Quilter and World of Embroidery. Her publications include "Quilts, Art and Feminism" in Quilt Art (2001) and "Perceptions of the Quilt in Twentieth Century Britain" in Quilt Studies (2000)
Her concerns are not purely academic; she also taught practical classes in patchwork and quilting, including the British City and Guilds courses, for more than 10 years.
For more information, go online to www.quiltstudycenter.org.
"Patchwork and Quilting in the United Kingdom Before the American Influence"
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