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American Quilt Study Group Fortieth Annual Seminar in partnership with the International Quilt Museum Uncovering Together Lincoln, Nebraska October 9-13, 2019 Tentative Seminar Schedule* *Times are subject to change. You will receive more details when you register. All study centers at hotel unless otherwise noted. Wednesday Friday 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. October 9 October 11 Study Center Dinner 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Breakfast Antique Quilting & Live Auction Needlework Tools Auctions Cash Out Registration 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Endowment Table Dawn Cook-Ronningen Sunday Registration Omaha World-Herald Thursday October 13 Endowment Table Contests & Exhibits October 10 Breakfast 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m Donna DiNatale Breakfast Tour Wandering Feet 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Stuhr Museum & Broken Needles Registration Registration 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Lisa Erlandson Endowment Table Endowment Table Study Centers: IQM 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Photographing Your Quilts Area Rep Meeting Shipping Service Tour Larry Gawell 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. 9:00 a.m. New Views Indigo Research Workshop Research Presentation IQM Jay Rich Moving Forward with Invited Speaker 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Your Quilt Research Claire Nicholas Study Centers Tour Publications Committee Annual Meeting Documenting Indigenous Old World Quilts Invitation to Seminar 2020 6:00 p.m. Quilt History in America IQM Opening Banquet 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Marsha MacDowell 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Keynote Address Closing Luncheon Margaret Wood Study Centers Marin Hanson 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Jeannette Dean The Quilt Index Show & Tell Tour Throckmorton Beth Donaldson Vendors open till 10:00 p.m. Behind the Scenes Claire McKarns Portrait of a Past Imagined IQM Star Struck Lisa Erlandson Saturday Lori Triplett Laura Wheeler & Alice October 12 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Study Centers Lunch on Your Own Brooks Quilt Pattern History Breakfast Cheddar Isn’t Always Cheese or with Tour Merikay Waldvogel 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Carol Butzke Registration 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Lunch on Your Own Mark My Words Endowment Table Tour or with Tour Julie Silber New Views 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 9:00 a.m. Fruitbasket IQM Vendor Sale Open Research Presentations Lori Triplett 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Quilt Exhibit Open 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. 4:00 p.m. Study Centers Book Sale Open Lunch & Group Planning/ Board of Directors Meeting Antique Quilting & Silent Auction Open Vision activity Dinner on Your Own Needlework Tools 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday Dawn Cook-Ronningen Presenters’ Tech Session Book Sale Open Kitchen Rags to Quilt Mags October 14 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Silent Auction Open Xenia Cord 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Tour Quilt Exhibit Open Board of Directors Meeting 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Old World Quilts 1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. President’s Council IQM Vendor Sale Open Dinner on Your Own 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Study Center: IQM Panel Presentations Welcome Reception Indigo 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Jay Rich 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Mentor Session 40th Anniversary Display 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Poster Session Jewell Wolk Story Quilts Tour 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Library Depository & 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Authors’ Book Signing Vendor Sale Open Retrieval Facility East Campus 2 Uncovering Together For those visiting Nebraska for the first time – welcome! For those of you returning to Lincoln welcome back! The American Quilt Study Group Board of Directors and the International Quilt Museum are excited to be partnering to welcome you to AQSG Seminar 2019. Quilts bring people together - they reflect and create our shared history. For AQSG, 2019 is the beginning of our 40th year as a community dedicated to expanding our knowledge of quilts and their contribution to our collective past, present, and future. IQM’s comprehensive and accessible collection of quilts and related ephemera is a primary source of study for students, teachers, scholars, artists, makers and the public at large. IQM is delighted to share some of the oldest and rare pieces in the collection with Seminar participants. Please join us for an exciting four days of learning and celebration as we uncover the world of quilts together. General Events Included in your $410 Seminar registration fee. Area Representatives Meeting Mentoring Table Vendors’ Sale of Antique, Area Representatives, and those interested If you would like to learn more about Vintage, & Reproduction in becoming ARs, are invited to meet Friday, available AQSG research mentors, join October 11 at 4:30 p.m. Learn successful us at our table during the Poster Session, Quilt-Related Items strategies for attracting new members, Saturday, October 12. We will be glad to The vendors’ sale offers members an and share your ideas and questions with discuss the type of project you are pursuing opportunity to shop for high-quality fellow reps. – research, publication, or both. We’ll talk items while benefiting AQSG. Members more about your subject matter to hopefully wishing to sell quilt-related products Research Workshop team you up with the best match for your at Seminar should request guidelines The Publications Committee will present research needs! and agreement forms from the AQSG brief topical discussions of research office, phone: (402) 477-1181 or e-mail: methods and paper preparation. Then we Saturday Poster Session [email protected] will divide into small groups to discuss The poster session is an opportunity for Completed forms must be returned to the AQSG office your projects. Participants will come with members to present ongoing research by July 1. a project in mind or underway and leave projects to fellow Seminar participants. Deadline is firm. with renewed commitment and direction. View displays of research questions, Silent & Live Auctions Please join us on Friday afternoon. methods, and preliminary results that invite dialogue with colleagues. Poster Join in the friendly competition for Show & Tell presenters will be available to discuss and treasures during the ever-popular Silent Auction on Friday and Saturday afternoons. Make this Friday evening event special field questions about their research for the Auctioneer Julie Silber will preside over by sharing your quilts (antique or entire session. Enjoy this engaging event the Live Auction on Saturday evening. contemporary), quilt related items, on Saturday afternoon. Donations of quality items from members and stories. Book Sale & Signing and merchants are the key to a successful Help Shape Our Future Take the opportunity to fill the gaps in auction. All proceeds support the programs What better time to envision the future your library. Purchase additional copies of AQSG. for AQSG than when we come together at of Uncoverings and member authors’ Sending items before Seminar allows Seminar. This year you’ll have a unique publications. Uncoverings 2019 authors paperwork to be handled ahead of time and other authors will sign their books opportunity to join with friends and and attractive displays to be planned. members to share ideas on how we can during the weekend. A portion of the book sale proceeds benefits AQSG. Last minute items tucked securely in your move into our next 40 years. We’ll reveal suitcase can be processed fast if your the results of the all-member survey. And Member authors wishing to participate in the donation form with donor estimated value book sale may find guidelines and agreement we’ll gather over lunch to discuss together is attached. Please send your items and your ideas for new opportunities and paths forms at www.americanquiltstudygroup. org. Phone: (402) 477-1181 or e-mail: completed auction donation form after to explore. You are what makes AQSG [email protected]. August 1 to: strong and we need your help as we create Completed forms must be returned to the Virginia Berger a vision and plan. Just one more reason AQSG officeby August 15. 214 S 13th St. to make sure that Seminar 2019 is on Adel IA 50003 your calendar! 3 Thursday Evening Welcome Events Thursday October 10, 2019 Welcome Event Please join us for this gala inauguration of the American Quilt Study Group 40th Anniversary on Thursday evening from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm at the Embassy Suites Hotel in downtown Lincoln. Enjoy light hors d’oeuvres and the cash bar as you mingle with old and new friends. Activities for the evening will include a pictorial display from the archives of AQSG, an exhibit by the Lincoln Modern Quilt Guild and a presentation by Jean Wakely on the story quilt project. Do enjoy dinner on your own before or after this event. That’s Modern! Special Exhibit 2019 This year’s special quilt exhibit is quilt history in the making! That’s Modern showcases the talents of members of the Lincoln Modern Quilt Guild, whose selections illustrate one or more of the major design elements from the field of modern quilting today.