Panel Discussion with Heidi Parkes, Roderick Kiracofe, Luke Haynes, Amanda Nadig
Panel Discussion with Heidi Parkes, Roderick Kiracofe, Luke Haynes, Amanda Nadig
Join us in celebrating National Quilting Day on March 15, 2025, with the opening of the WMQFA exhibition "Heidi Parkes: Soft Magic."
3:00–4:30 PM CST
Attend an insightful panel discussion featuring noted artists Heidi Parkes, Roderick Kiracofe, Luke Haynes, and Amanda Nadig.
Please register in advance to secure your spot.
About Heidi Parkes
Heidi Parkes was the 2024 Pfister Artist in Residence in Milwaukee, WI. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with Emphasis in Education from SAIC in 2005 and continues pursuing her passion for teaching by lecturing and leading workshops nationally and internationally. Parkes has won numerous awards at the Modern Quilt Guild’s QuiltCon, including notably first place in Handwork in 2016 and 2020 and Judge’s Choice from Mondo Guerra in 2019. She taught at QuiltCon from 2017–2023 and has exhibited there 2016–2025. Two of Parkes’s Diary Quilts have toured with Quilt National in 2023 and 2025. She has exhibited her quilts at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, the Iowa Quilt Museum, Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum, the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts, the New England Quilt Museum, The Dairy Barn, the Portrait Society Gallery, the James Watrous Gallery, Woman Made Gallery, the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, the Charles Allis Art Museum, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, the South Bend Museum of Art, the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, and internationally in Alsace, France, and Seoul, South Korea. Her work is in private collections throughout the U.S. and worldwide, and she connects with thousands on YouTube and Instagram.
https://www.heidiparkes.com @Heidi.Parkes
About Roderick Kiracofe
For more than three decades, famed quilt collector and best-selling author Roderick Kiracofe has been sought out by major art museums and top quilt industry figures for his exceptional taste, experience, and advice. He is active on social media and a regular presence in galleries and quilt shows across the country.
https://www.theamericanquilt.com @roderick752
About Luke Haynes
Subverting the traditional quilting form by integrating modern concepts, his art transforms the comfortably familiar into the visually evocative. Luke Haynes was born and raised across the American South. With a formal training in art and architecture at Cooper Union, New York, Haynes continues to experiment with quilting art while exploring art and architecture across the globe.
A chance encounter with a box of fabric remnants sparked Haynes's imagination. His first quilt, measuring 7′ x 10′, led him through years of experimentation and improvements over the years that he has been quilting. Further honing his style, Haynes developed a system to piece manageable parts into a larger whole, applying a modern design sense to a familiar process. He uses reclaimed materials from the communities he works with in his projects to speak with the textile language of the area.
https://www.luke.art @entropies
About Amanda Nadig
Amanda Nadig is a textile artist who finds inspiration in keeping with and breaking away from traditions in quilting. Her hand-quilted compositions explore colors and shapes sourced from secondhand garments and home textiles discovered near her home studio in Chicago, IL. Her two young children and her high school art students have a great influence on her work; she explores balance, embraces chance, and experiments endlessly in her artistic practice.
