Asheville, North Carolina, May 24, 2012
If you like sweets, quilts and sweet quilt stories then mark August 3, 2012 in your calendar. You won't want to miss the Alliance for American Quilts' (Quilt Alliance) first "Quilters Take --" event in the Midwest, an evening of inspiration and education hosted by AccuQuilt� at their new headquarters in Omaha. This special fundraising event will honor longtime Quilt Alliance volunteer and quilt history champion Linda Pumphrey as she finishes her board service. The Quilt Alliance has been documenting, preserving and sharing the history of quilts and their makers since 1993 and is now based in Asheville, North Carolina with its chief resources located online at www.QuiltAlliance.org, freely available to every quilt-lover on the planet.  | |
Linda Pumphrey
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We'll start the evening with an exhibition of Linda's private quilt collection then indulge ourselves with wine, dessert and coffee and a fabulous silent auction. Quilt historian and Quilters Hall of Fame Honoree (2009) Merikay Waldvogel will begin our main program with a story about how she met Linda. Then we'll settle in to watch Linda being interviewed for the Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories Project (Q.S.O.S.) Q.S.O.S. is the Quilt Alliance's grassroots oral history project that captures the stories of quiltmakers from the United States and beyond. The collection now includes more than 1,000 interviews archived in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and presented on the Quilt Alliance's website (www.QuiltAlliance.org/qsos ). Tickets for Quilters Take Omaha at the AccuQuilt Headquarters are $30 for Alliance members and $35 for non members. And if you can't make the trip to Omaha but want to honor Linda and support the Alliance, please make a donation in honor of Linda. All donors of $50 or more will have a chance to send a VoiceQuilt audio message to Linda on this special occasion. Click here to reserve your tickets to this fun summer event.
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