Karey bresenhan biography of donald

Our History

In 1993, recognizing the need to centralize information about quilts and quiltmaking, four women joined forces to create Quilt Alliance. This project drew together Shelly Zegart and Eunice Ray of The Kentucky Quilt Project, and Karey Bresenhan and Nancy O’Bryant Puentes, corporate officers of Quilts, Inc. and founders of the non-profit Texas Quilt Search. With the establishment of The Alliance, the founders combined their shared dedication to quilts with their extensive experiences shaping the quilt industry and quilt scholarship in this country. In 1981 the Kentucky Quilt Project began to develop scholarship, publications, and exhibitions about quilts and their creators, jumpstarting the state quilt project movement. Quilts, Inc. has been the primary catalyst behind the development of the international quilt industry and has worked for more than 40 years to foster the public appreciation of contemporary and historic quilts around the world.

The Quilt Alliance’s founde

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Major Quilt History Acquisition Announced by Center for American History

The Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the Joyce Gross lapptäcke History Collection, an outstanding collection of historically significant quits and quilt history research materials.

The collection contains examples of American quilting and several hundred written items, including manuscripts, rare textile books and catalogs, other visual materials and ephemera of 20th century quilting history.

“We are incredibly pleased that the Joyce Gross collection fryst vatten now at the Center,” said Dr. Don Carleton, executive director of the Center. “The combination of exceptional quilts and extensive research collection make this collection a wonderful addition to our material culture holdings. It also adds to the Center’s growing reputation as an important center for the study of the quilt.”

The acquisition of the collection was made possible by support f

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I’ve been taking a break from writing because for the first time since last Spring, I’ve been able to travel for quilting events. In early July, I got together with my local study group, the Northern Illinois Quilt Study Group, to look at a member’s collection of doll quilts.  Then a week later I was at the Quilters Hall of Fame Celebration where Marti Michell and Mary Gasperik were inducted as honorees.  And I’ve just returned from the American Quilt Study Group’s annual Seminar in Harrisonburg (Shenandoah Valley), VA. Next up for me is a four-day session on Red and Green antique and vintage quilts at the end of September.  Phew!  I feel like I’ve waited so long for this, and I’m going to make the most of every opportunity.

Well, not every opportunity. The one that will have to stay on my bucket list for another year is the International Quilt Festival in Houston Texas, an annual event begun and produced for over 40 years by Hall of Fame Honoree, Karey Bresen