Join us for a full day of quilting! Event will take place at the Washington County Fairgrounds. Features include lectures, vendors, contests, gallery, prizes and more!
Join us on Tuesday, March 12th, from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm at the Cedarburg Public Library for an unforgettable presentation with guest curator and fiber artist Jennifer Kim Sohn.
Discover the powerful story of 25 Million Stitches: One Stitch, One Refugee! Join the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts and the Cedarburg Library for a captivating one-hour lecture by Jennifer Kim Sohn. As the artist who organized the exhibition, Jennifer will take you through the evolution of this remarkable project and how it has made a lasting impact. Take advantage of this opportunity to hear the story of an exhibition that has brought attention and gravitas to the worldwide refugee crisis.
This program is open to the public and registration is recommended but not required.
Join us for a full day of quilting! Event will take place at the Washington County Fairgrounds. Features include lectures, vendors, contests, gallery, prizes and more!
Enjoy this Virtual Lecture and Fundraiser Supporting the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts from the comfort of your own home and join us along with renowned textile artist, researcher and teacher Rebecca Devaney over Zoom.
$25/ Members | $30/ Nonmembers
Rebecca Devaney’s lecture will tell the fascinating story of how luxury textiles and fashion became woven into the fabric of Paris. The intriguing history of luxury textiles and fashion is revealed through the geography of the winding streets and wide boulevards of Paris. Travelling in Paris from the elegant Opéra district to Le Sentier, once the bustling garment district, we will meet kings, politicians, spies, cloth merchants, milliners, glove-makers, feather-workers, embroiderers and the fiercely independent Midinettes.
Note: To train at the prestigious École Lesage is to be invited to share in more than a century and a half of ever-renewed enthusiasm, talent and expertise. It means getting a chance to learn the techniques mastered – and, in some cases, invented – by one of the world’s greatest embroidery houses.
This lecture will be held via Zoom only. An emailed invitation, with links, will be provided to registrants approximately one to two weeks prior to the tour.
Thank you for supporting WMQFA!
Join us for a full day of quilting! Event will take place at the Washington County Fairgrounds. Features include lectures, vendors, contests, gallery, prizes and more!
Join us at Saint Kate - The Arts Hotel for a cocktail reception followed by an artists panel celebrating WMQFA’s current exhibition Counting Threads (on view through November 13). Mix and mingle with artists Jacquie Gering, Michelle Grabner, and Sarah Nishiura, while enjoying the ambience and galleries at Saint Kate - The Arts Hotel. Continue your experience with a lively conversation among the three artists and Saint Kate’s Curator Samantha Timm guided by WMQFA’s Senior Curator Emily Schlemowitz.
Description
Join Patricia Belyea as she takes you on an insider tour of the Tokyo Quilt Festival and on a virtual textile tour of Japan. Visit a chusen-dyeing workshop, an indigo master, a secret needle shop, the Kubota Museum, and more. Every step of the way, Patricia shares her textile-filled adventures. Patricai also shows some of her quilts made with Japanese yukata cottons. After her talk is a half- hour Q&A session for questions and comments.
Join us for a full day of quilting! Event will take place at the Washington County Fairgrounds. Features include lectures, vendors, contests, gallery, prizes and more!
Join us Friday, October 1, 2021, from noon-1pm CDT, for a virtual tour of Victoria Findlay Wolfe: Now & Then, Playing with Purpose with the museum’s Senior Curator, Emily Schlemowitz.
Registration Closed at 4 p.m. CDT.
Thursday, September 2, 2021; 6:30 p.m. CDT
Join WMQFA as we open the Victoria Findlay Wolfe: Playing With Purpose exhibition with a special one-hour lecture with Victoria!
Victoria will give a lecture then take us on a tour of the exhibition, with time for questions from both the in-person and virtual audiences.
This hybrid event will feature limited in-person seating for WMQFA members and a virtual option for everyone.
$25 WMQFA members (virtual/ or in-person) or $30 non-members
Artist Biography:
I’m Diane Newbury, a very happy mid-life career changer. My prior working life was all about finance, computer systems, writing, and training, but now I get to pursue a life-long passion.
My love affair with museums and ancient things dates back a long, long way. My husband reminds me that no matter where we’ve gone in the world, I “drag” him to a museum or to some crumbling archaeological ruin.
In 2014, I completed my Master’s degree in Anthropology (emphasis: Archaeology) and Museum Studies through a joint program between the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM). My thesis was based on a beautiful collection of archaeological Peruvian featherwork artifacts housed at MPM, as well as museums in New York and Peru.
Through my thesis work, I found a new passion for research. I am now studying and documenting a very large collection of Peruvian archaeological textiles at the MPM and a smaller collection here at the WMQFA.
Join us for a full day of quilting! Event will take place at the Washington County Fairgrounds. Features include lectures, vendors, contests, gallery, prizes and more!
Virtual lecture with author Bobbie Malone celebrating the publication of "Striding Lines: The Unique Story Quilts of Rumi O'Brien."
About the Book:
Bobbie Malone reaches beyond the quilts to tell O’Brien’s own story, from her initial foray into the quilting world to her developed dedication to the craft. Contributions from leaders in the art, textile, and quilting community, including Melanie Herzog and Marin Hanson, contextualize O’Brien’s work in the greater community of quiltmakers and artists. This book celebrates the ingenuity of O’Brien’s enchanting story quilts, which take inspiration from her Japanese heritage and Midwest home.
*Books are available for sale at our partners, Boswell Book Company*
Event sponsored by University of Wisconsin Press and Boswell Book Company.
Welcome to our Zoom video conferencing! Thank you for coming along as we navigate our new virtual learning. We will be making online lectures and classes available via Zoom while the museum is closed to the public.
Easy to use and reliable, Zoom is available to download for free on your PC/Mac or by using a dedicated app for iOS and Android. Before you join us, you will need to sign up for Zoom using a free Basic Plan.
When you join one of our programs (referred to as a meeting in Zoom), we will do a brief greeting, and then ask you to mute your microphones for optimal sound quality. With the Zoom meeting active, as you hover your mouse over the bottom of the page, you will click the icon of a microphone. We will have moderators standing by to assist you with this process.
We encourage you to ask questions at any time, by using the Chat feature or by simply raising your hand via the hand signal and turning your microphone back on.
Once you have downloaded the program, Zoom allows you to test your Internet connection by joining a test meeting.
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out via info@wiquiltmuseum.com.
Join us for a full day of quilting! Event will take place at the Washington County Fairgrounds. Features include lectures, vendors, contests, gallery, prizes and more!
I give an inspiring talk about my process and how to push your creativity. I share enough to get you all creatively inspired, then we send you home on the creative buzz!
“I started making things when I was little, and never stopped.” - Denyse Schmidt
Presented by Sue Heinz - A MUST-SEE lecture that will ROCK your piecing world!
Listen to Deborah Fell as she discusses the Industrial Revolution to the invention of the Square, this lecture focuses on the impact of technology on quilting & the quilting industry.
