Discovering Memory and Meaning in Quilts

Authors

Carolyn K. Ducey, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Patricia Cox Crews, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

6-1-2002

Comments

Published in Quilters’ Review 33 (Summer 2002), pp. 6–9. Copyright 2002 The Quilters' Guild of the British Isles.

Abstract

After an extensive search Ardis and Robert James, quilt collectors from Chappaqua, New York, chose the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) as the home for their collection of almost a thousand quilts. They also supported the formation of the International Quilt Study Center (IQSC) in 1997 for the interdisciplinary study of quiltmaking traditions through the collection, conservation and exhibition of quilts and related materials. Carolyn Ducey and Patricia Crews, the Center’s curator and director, respectively, write about some of the work they do.