Session Time: Fri, 8:30-10:30
Title: Symbolism & Community
Presenters:
1. Myra Brown Green, The Presence of African Symbols in Contemporary North American Quilts
2. Judy Bales, Fractal Geometry in African American Quilts
3. Pearlie Johnson, The Power of Feminism in Fabric Art: A Celebration of Motherhood, Sisterhood, and the Matriarchs
4. Richard Caro, Quiltmaking and the Online Guild
Session Time: Fri,8:30-10:30
Title: Intarsia Patchwork: An Undomesticated Technique
Panel Presentation:
Annette Gero et al, Made by Men, Used by Soldiers, Exhibited for Money, Intarsia Patchwork: The Cultural Contexts of an Undomesticated Technique
Session Time: Fri, 11-12:30
Title: Cultural Maintenance
Presenters:
1. Patricia Keller,Context and Identity: Pennsylvania German Quilts and Quiltmaking, 1750-1885
2. Virginia Gunn, Quaker Quilts: Maintaining Cultural Values and Social Connections in the Westward Migration
3. Cynthia Prescott, Crazy Quilts, Consumer Culture and the Meaning of Women's Work on the American Frontier
Session Time: Fri, 11-12:30
Title:Renewing & Reinterpreting Tradition
Presenters:
1. Marsha MacDowell, Quiltmaking in South Africa
2. Gwen Wanigasekera, British Origins, American Traditions, South Pacific Influences: Quilts in Aotearoa, New Zealand
3 Laurel Horton, Swedish Quilts in the Context of the Hemslojd (Handcraft) Movement
Session Time: Fri, 2-3:30
Title:Influence & Revival
Presenters:
1. Susan Marks, Quilt as Icon? An Investigation Into the Relative Status of the Quilt in American and British Culture
2. Harold Mailand, A French Connection?
3. Nao Nomura, Importing Nostalgia: Appropriation of American "Colonial" Memory in Japanese Quiltmaking
Session Time: Fri, 2-3:30
Title:Cultural Cross-overs
Presenters:
1. Dorothy Osler, The Spatial Distribution of Amish and Welsh Settlements in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania: Implications for Cultural Cross-over in Quiltmaking
2. Jannaken Smucker, "Qui sont les Amish?": Europeans and the American-ness of Quilts
3. Colleen Hall-Patton, Ethnic Quilting Traditions in Magazine Articles
Panel Session Time: Fri, 2-3:30
Title: Mathematical Quilts: History, Pedagogy and Contemporary Art
Presenters: John Sims, Diane Venters, Elaine Ellison
Session Time: Fri,4-5:30
Title:Faith & Community
Presenters:
1. Laurann Gilbertson, Religion and Norwegian-American Quilts
2. Karen Smith, Women's Mission to Stitch: Aesthetic Boundaries, Community Faith, and the Michiana Mennonite Relief Sale Quilt Auction
3. Marilyn Luecke, The "Gospel Quilt" as a "Women's Bible"
Session Time: Fri,4-5:30
Title:Tracing Patterns
Presenters:
1.Patrick Finn, Indo-Portuguese Quilting Traditions: The Cross-cultural Influences
2. Tricia Stoddard, The Cultural Context of the Ralli Quilt
3. Linda Baumgarten, The Mystery of Silk Cord Quilts in the Seventeenth Century
4. Bridget Long, The Half-Square Triangle: Exporting a Patchwork Shape
Session Time: Fri,4-5:30
Title:Making & Meaning
Presenters:
1. Susan Wadley, Bringing Quilting to the College Classroom
2. Pamela Tracz, The Culture of the Quilting Workshop
3. Emer Fahy, Quilting as a Mode of Self-Experession Among Irish Women
Panel Session Time: Fri. 7 p.m.
Title: The British Quilt: Historic Influences and Contemporary Pathways
Panelists: Dorothy Osler, Bridget Long, Sue Pritchard, Susan Marks, Lynn Setterington
Session Time: Sat. 8:30-10:30
Title:Trans-National Currents
Presenters:
1. Sandra Sider, Color, Pattern, Texture: Exotic Influences in American Quilt Art, 1960s-1970s
2. Lynn Setterington, Cross-Cultural Collaborations
3. Gerry Craig, Reading Culture: Transition in Hmong Textile Language
4. Chunghie Lee, Pojagi-From Korean Folk Art to Contemporary Art Form
Session Time: Sat. 8:30-10:30
Title:Aesthetic Consciousness
Presenters:
1. Leigh Fullner, A Comparative Study of Slave Trade-era African Textiles and African-American
2. Kathleen Moore, Defining African-American Quilts: Are the Commentators at Cross Purposes?
3. Teri Klassen, Quilt Aesthetics and Cultural Values in the Mid 1900s Rural U.S. South
4. Mary Worrall, The Cuesta Benberry African and African American Quilt and Ephemera Collections
