If you weren't able to travel to New York for the Infinite Variety quilt exhibition in March or if you just didn't get enough time in the Big Apple, now you have a second chance. The AAQ invites you to join us for a fabulous weekend of quilts, fabric, fun and fashion . To showcase its dynamic programs, and help pay for them too, the Alliance has put together a fun collection of three related but separate events: "Quilters Take Manhattan." Click on the links below for full details and ticket sales for each event. Tickets are sold a la carte, so you can tailor a program to your own tastes and budget.
Thanks to our generous sponsors, listed below, we're able to offer tickets at very affordable prices. But naturally we give our members an extra low price. We hope that if you are not a member and plan to join us in August, you'll consider taking that extra step and becoming a member. Members of the Alliance for American Quilts support and propel our mission to document, preserve and share the rich history of quilts and quiltmakers, providing key financial support for our projects (Quilters' S.O.S.- Save Our Stories, The Quilt Index, Quilt Treasures and Boxes Under the Bed). Members often serve as ambassadors for the AAQ at quilt shows and events and help promote our mission and projects through their own networks. Even if you can't come, maybe this is a good time to support us with your membership. Click here for information on becoming an AAQ member.
Modern Stories:
Documenting the Modern Quilt Movement:
Friday, August 5, 2011, 7:00-10:00 p.m.
This event is an intimate gathering at the Garment District loft home of Victoria Findlay Wolfe, (Bumble Beans Inc.), custom quiltmaker and co-founder of the New York City Metro Area Modern Quilt Guild and Bumble Beans Basics charity project. Victoria will be joined by moderator Jackie Kunkel, Melanie Testa, Kim Hryniewicz, Jennifer Paganelli and John Adams as they discuss the Modern Quilt Movement: how it started and where it's headed. Refreshments and door prizes.Also, witness Victoria getting interviewed for the Alliance's oral history project, Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories (Q.S.O.S.). Tickets are $10 for AAQ members, $12 for nonmembers through June 30 and $15 starting July 1. Click here for more information on this event.
 Marianne & Jay on the Runway:
A Quilter's Alliance of Fabric & Fashion
Saturday, August 6, 2011, 1:00-6:00 pm
Our biggest event in the series will be held at F.I.T., the Fashion Institute of Technology and will feature beloved quilt TV host Marianne Fons. Marianne will lecture on "Why We Quilt," and her daughter Mary Fons, a slam poet from Chicago who recently launched her own quilt TV show, "Quilty," on the Internet will follow in the program. Then, meet Jay McCarroll, first season Project Runway winner, who is now designing quilt fabric for FreeSpirit. Jay will be interviewed for the Alliance's prestigious Q.S.O.S. oral history project, and take questions from the audience. This afternoon has it all: door prizes, refreshments, goody bags, and an amazing silent auction. (The bad boy of quilting, Mark Lipinski, will be there too: but his role is a surprise for now.)
Tickets are $45 for AAQ members, $60 for nonmembers through June 30 and $70 starting July 1. Click here for more information on this event.
NY's Ultimate Block Party:
Cocktails at The City Quilter
Saturday, August 6, 2011, 7:30 - 9 pm
Take the short walk from F.I.T. to a unique cocktail party in the best and biggest quilt shop in Manhattan--The City Quilter. This just-expanded, eye-popping shop includes a new art gallery for quilts, where you can view an exhibit by Japanese quilter Noriko Endo (work pictured at left). Nibble on appetizers and drink wine, while rubbing elbows with Marianne and Mary Fons, Jay McCarroll and lots of surprise quilt celebs. Activities include live bidding in the first-ever show and auction of quilts made by board members of the Alliance for American Quilts.
Tickets are $100 for AAQ members, $125 for nonmembers through June 30 and $150 starting July 1. Click here for more information on this event.
The Alliance wishes to thank its incredibly generous and creative Gold Sponsors: New Track Media/ Creative Crafts Group/ Keepsake Quilting, AccuQuilt, AURIfil and Benartex; and our venue sponsors, The City Quilter and Bumble Beans Inc.:
  
  
 
New Track Media, Creative Crafts Group, and Keepsake Quilting,"The most trusted names in quilting."
AccuQuilt, "Better Cuts Make Better Quilts."
AURIfil "Perfectly Suited for Every Quilt Project."
Benartex Fabric, "Fabric for Quilters. By Quilters."
The City Quilter, "A Quilting Haven in NYC and Home of the Only Art Quilt Gallery in NY."
Bumble Beans Inc., "Original and Custom Quilts."
Those who attend any of the three events will have a chance to win awesome prizes from all of these incredible sponsors, and other fine items donated by our business members.
For a full list of prices and activities for the Quilters Take Manhattan benefit weekend, visit our website, www.AllianceForAmericanQuilts.org.
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