3rd biennial quilt symposium is March 1-3

Every other year the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln brings together 150 to 200 individuals interested in quilt design and quilting traditions. A worldwide audience has the opportunity to hear lectures, paper presentations and panel discussions and visit a variety of quilt exhibitions. The goal of this gathering is to celebrate quilts and quiltmaking.

The next IQSC symposium, "Traditions and Trajectories: Education and the Quiltmaker," is March 1-3. Scholars, artists, quilt makers and quilt enthusiasts are invited to attend to study and discuss how the quiltmaker's art is learned, studied, applied and handed on. This forum will examine:

* How quiltmakers teach and learn from quilts;
* The many ways quilting is learned;
* How changing technology influences quilt and textile craft education;
* Historical and contemporary comparisons, and many other topics.

Symposium speakers will include Jean Ray Laury, well-known California designer, quilter and writer; Stuart Kestenbaum, poet and director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine; and Paulette Peters, renowned Nebraska quilter and teacher.

Panel discussions on the impacts, challenges and future roles of quilt education will be moderated by Kestenbaum and UNL textiles, clothing and design professor Michael James. Twenty-eight papers will be presented addressing a broad range of topics from ethnicity and textile traditions to curriculum plans for interdisciplinary classrooms. For a complete listing of panel topics and participants go to www.quiltstudy.org/symposium/schedule.html.

Several quilt exhibitions are in Lincoln at the same time. At the Hillestad Gallery on UNL's East Campus, "Give and Take" will feature quilts of artists who have been instructors or students at the annual Quilt Surface Design Symposium in Ohio. Other quilt exhibitions at local galleries and museums are: "European Art Quilts IV" at the Haydon Art Center, 335 N. Eighth St., Suite A; "Tactile Traces," featuring works of Katherine Allen, Eleanor McCain and Barbara Watler at the Lux Center for the Arts, 2601 N. 48th St.; "Doll Quilts from the Ghormley Collection of the IQSC" at the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St.; and; "Quilts A to Z," a collaboration between the IQSC and the Nebraska State Historical Society at the Museum of Nebraska History, 15th and P streets.

To register for the symposium or learn more about the exhibition, visit www.quiltstudy.org or call (402) 472-6549.

CONTACT: Maureen Ose, Communications Coordinator, International Quilt Study Center, (402) 472-7232