Quilt Education, Museums, Exhibitions & Exhibit Entry Information

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Exhibit Opportunities

Museums

Study Groups or Educational Focus

 

• Hoffman Challenge (FYI we carry the Hoffman Challange CD which is going to become a series)
• David Walker's Quilt Art Bulletin Board with Exhibits calling for quilt entries, plus must see Exhibit dates, Symposiums/Conferences, Scholarship/Residency opportunities and more
• Machine Quilting Exposition held at The Winnipesaukee Exposition Center in Laconia, NH. Features classes from nationally known machine quilting instructors, vendor mall and a quilt show with 200+ machine quilted quilts from all over the US, Canada, Australia and England.
• New England Quilt Museum Auxilary sponsors a biennial quilting conference and exhibit open to all quilters held for the benefit of the The New England Quilt Museum. It includes, in addition to a juried quilt show and special quilt exhibits, classes and lectures by nationally acclaimed teachers and vendors from throughout New England and beyond.
• Quilts, Inc. International Quilt Festival (Houston, Texas in the fall), Quilt Expo, (Europe in the Spring) Embellishments (various locations), International Quilt Market (Spring & Fall), and European Quilt Market (Spring)
• Quilt National
• Vermont Quilt Festival
• Road to California quilt conference and exhibit opporutunity for quilter from the Western United States, see the website for details.

Museums

• American Textile Museum large collection includes thousands of books, manuscripts and images, millions of textile samples and hundreds of textile-making machines. The Museum is an unparalleled resource for the study of American textile history.
• Folkart and Crafts Museum Exchange
• La Conner Quilt Museum
• Library of Congress: American Memories, Quilts and Quiltmaking in America 1978-1996
• Museum of the American Quilter's Society Open all year with 3 galleries of quilts on exhibit. Paducah, Kentucky
• Textile Art Center in Chicago, IL Textile Arts Centre is a unique non-profit organization which offers: Classes and workshops in various textile techniques, a Gallery with outstanding fiber art exhibits.
• The Museum for Textiles: Canada
• The New England Quilt Museum
  • New England Quilt Museum Auxilary sponsors a biennial quilting conference held for the benefit of the New England Quilt Museum. It includes, in addition to a juried quilt show and special quilt exhibits, classes and lectures by nationally acclaimed teachers and vendors from throughout New England and beyond. Next quilt conference is 2002.
• Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum Golden, Co
• San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles mission is to promote the art, craft and history of quilts and textiles.
• Textile links to museums
• Virginia Quilt Museum

Study Groups or Educational Focus

• American Quilt Study Group
• International Quilt Study The University Nebraska Lincoln has created IQSC to encourage the interdisciplinary study of all aspects of quiltmaking traditions and to foster preservation of this tradition through the collection, conservation and exhibition of quilts and related materials. \
• National Quilt Register (Australia) collection of stories/history of quilts and quilters.
• Quilt Art Forum
• Quilt History Sharing Page for World Wide Quilting Includes a list of world-wide Quilt Study Groups
• Quilters New Network QNN, is the first fully scheduled affinity market broadcast network delivered on the Internet twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. QNN addresses the quilting industry's need for project-based media by providing pure interest programming to the more than 30 million quilters around the globe.This is a must-see site!
• Quilt/Surface Design Symposium

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