Join us for a full day of quilting! Event will take place at the Washington County Fairgrounds. Features include lectures, vendors, contests, gallery, prizes and more!
Join us for a full day of quilting! Event will take place at the Washington County Fairgrounds. Features include lectures, vendors, contests, gallery, prizes and more!
Join us for a full day of quilting! Event will take place at the Washington County Fairgrounds. Features include lectures, vendors, contests, gallery, prizes and more!
Free Virtual Program: Friday, March 18 at noon CDT
Join us for a virtual conversation about WMQFA’s origins, based on the year-long oral history project conducted in 2021. This program will focus on the women who were interviewed and instrumental in the museum’s creation.
Donations, large and small, built WMQFA, and they are still appreciated! Registration is not required but donations allow us to keep programs like this free.
The program will be live via Zoom and WMQFA’s Facebook.
Click here to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86991164264
This program is sponsored by grants from the American Quilt Study Group, Kohler Foundation, and Wisconsin Arts Board with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
Free Virtual Program: Friday, February 25 at noon CST
Join us for a virtual conversation about WMQFA’s origins, based on the year-long oral history project conducted in 2021. This program will focus on the museum’s transition and creating the museum you know and love today.
Donations, large and small, built WMQFA, and they are still appreciated! Registration is not required but donations allow us to keep programs like this free.
The program will be live via Zoom and WMQFA’s Facebook.
Click here to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87966869762
This program is sponsored by grants from the American Quilt Study Group, Kohler Foundation, and Wisconsin Arts Board with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
Friday, February 18, 2022 at noon central time
Join WMQFA and Hooked by Design artists Tracy Jamar, Susan Feller, and Kris McDermet for a lively panel discussion about their work, inspirations, and more!
This program is free, but donations are appreciated. Click here to make a donation.
Join here via Zoom or watch live on Facebook. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85858230035
Hooked by Design and its programming are supported by Jan Schley and the Wisconsin Arts Board, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Join us for a full day of quilting! Event will take place at the Washington County Fairgrounds. Features include lectures, vendors, contests, gallery, prizes and more!
Free Virtual Program: Friday, February 4 at noon CST
Join us for a virtual conversation about WMQFA’s origins, based on the year-long oral history project conducted in 2021. This program will focus on the museum’s beginnings and the Wisconsin Quilt History Project.
Donations, large and small, built WMQFA, and they are still appreciated! Registration is not required but donations allow us to keep programs like this free.
The program will be live via Zoom and WMQFA’s Facebook.
Click here to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84943403132
This program is sponsored by grants from the American Quilt Study Group, Kohler Foundation, and Wisconsin Arts Board with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
Friday, January 14, 2022 at noon central time
Join WMQFA and Hooked by Design artists Sharon Felten, Heather Goodchild & Ann Willey for a lively panel discussion about their work, inspirations, and more!
Registration is not required. This program is free, but donations are appreciated. Click here to make a donation.
Join here via Zoom or watch live on Facebook.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82292889298
Hooked by Design and its programming are supported by Jan Schley and the Wisconsin Arts Board, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Happy 10th Anniversary!
Free Virtual Program: Friday, December 10, 2021 at noon CST
2021 is WMQFA’s 10th anniversary. Throughout the year, WMQFA has been collecting oral histories from past Board Members, volunteers, and Founding Mothers - all the people who envisioned and drove the effort that became the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts. Join us, FREE, for a special one hour zoom presenting these stories on Friday, December 10 at 12pm CST.
Donations, large and small, built WMQFA, and they are still appreciated! Your gift supports programs like this!
The program will be live via Zoom and WMQFA’s Facebook.
Click here to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81303327740
This program is sponsored by grants from the American Quilt Study Group, Kohler Foundation, and Wisconsin Arts Board with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
Join WMQFA Curator Emily Schlemowitz for a virtual tour of our current exhibition Remnants. Hear about the incredible work of the twelve contemporary fiber artists in Remnants, while getting a special look at the exhibit.
Join us for a full day of quilting! Event will take place at the Washington County Fairgrounds. Features include lectures, vendors, contests, gallery, prizes and more!
Join WMQFA on Friday, October 16 at noon CDT for a free, virtual panel discussion with distinguished artists Lauren Sinner, Amy Meissner, and Susie Brandt. Learn about these artists' inspirational practices and creative processes during a lunchtime talk moderated by WMQFA curator Emily Schlemowitz.
Join WMQFA staff for another glimpse into the fascinating stories hidden in the museum's collection.
This fun show & tell will also give you a sneak peak into the upcoming exhibition!
This program is free via Zoom or Facebook livestream.
To watch with Zoom, click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88575982660
Catherine has been weaving since 1984 and has taught weaving at the Midwest Weavers Conference, for the Wisconsin Handweavers, Inc and has also been a longtime teacher at the WMQFA. She is a member of Cedar Creek Unique Collectibles in Cedarburg and enjoys creating a variety of fabrics, including scarves, hand towels, table runners, placemats, and rugs on her several looms. In addition to offering her fiber arts at Cedar Creek Unique Collectibles, Catherine participates in a dozen juried art fairs annually. Catherine is a member of the Wisconsin Designer Craft Council, Cedarburg Artists Guild, and the Wisconsin Handweavers.
Catherine has been weaving since 1984 and has taught weaving at the Midwest Weavers Conference, for the Wisconsin Handweavers, Inc and has also been a longtime teacher at the WMQFA. She is a member of Cedar Creek Unique Collectibles in Cedarburg and enjoys creating a variety of fabrics, including scarves, hand towels, table runners, placemats, and rugs on her several looms. In addition to offering her fiber arts at Cedar Creek Unique Collectibles, Catherine participates in a dozen juried art fairs annually. Catherine is a member of the Wisconsin Designer Craft Council, Cedarburg Artists Guild, and the Wisconsin Handweavers.
Join us for a full day of quilting! Event will take place at the Washington County Fairgrounds. Features include lectures, vendors, contests, gallery, prizes and more!
Catherine has been weaving since 1984 and has taught weaving at the Midwest Weavers Conference, for the Wisconsin Handweavers, Inc and has also been a longtime teacher at the WMQFA. She is a member of Cedar Creek Unique Collectibles in Cedarburg and enjoys creating a variety of fabrics, including scarves, hand towels, table runners, placemats, and rugs on her several looms. In addition to offering her fiber arts at Cedar Creek Unique Collectibles, Catherine participates in a dozen juried art fairs annually. Catherine is a member of the Wisconsin Designer Craft Council, Cedarburg Artists Guild, and the Wisconsin Handweavers.
Catherine has been weaving since 1984 and has taught weaving at the Midwest Weavers Conference, for the Wisconsin Handweavers, Inc and has also been a longtime teacher at the WMQFA. She is a member of Cedar Creek Unique Collectibles in Cedarburg and enjoys creating a variety of fabrics, including scarves, hand towels, table runners, placemats, and rugs on her several looms. In addition to offering her fiber arts at Cedar Creek Unique Collectibles, Catherine participates in a dozen juried art fairs annually. Catherine is a member of the Wisconsin Designer Craft Council, Cedarburg Artists Guild, and the Wisconsin Handweavers.
Catherine has been weaving since 1984 and has taught weaving at the Midwest Weavers Conference, for the Wisconsin Handweavers, Inc and has also been a longtime teacher at the WMQFA. She is a member of Cedar Creek Unique Collectibles in Cedarburg and enjoys creating a variety of fabrics, including scarves, hand towels, table runners, placemats, and rugs on her several looms. In addition to offering her fiber arts at Cedar Creek Unique Collectibles, Catherine participates in a dozen juried art fairs annually. Catherine is a member of the Wisconsin Designer Craft Council, Cedarburg Artists Guild, and the Wisconsin Handweavers.
Catherine has been weaving since 1984 and has taught weaving at the Midwest Weavers Conference, for the Wisconsin Handweavers, Inc and has also been a longtime teacher at the WMQFA. She is a member of Cedar Creek Unique Collectibles in Cedarburg and enjoys creating a variety of fabrics, including scarves, hand towels, table runners, placemats, and rugs on her several looms. In addition to offering her fiber arts at Cedar Creek Unique Collectibles, Catherine participates in a dozen juried art fairs annually. Catherine is a member of the Wisconsin Designer Craft Council, Cedarburg Artists Guild, and the Wisconsin Handweavers.
Victoria Findlay Wolfe is a New York City-based Award-winning quilter, designer and author of 15 Minutes of Play: Improvisational Quilts; Double Wedding Ring Quilts: Traditions Made Modern; and Modern Quilt Magic: 5 Parlor Tricks to Expand Your Piecing Skills (C&T publishing).
Her work has been exhibited, written about, and featured on Sewing with Nancy and many other TV and online shows. Her quilt Double Edged Love, won Best in Show at the first QuiltCon in Austin, Texas, 2013.
Victoria has exhibited at the WMQFA, taught here multiple times, and serves on the museum’s Curatorial Advisory Board.
I give an inspiring talk about my process and how to push your creativity. I share enough to get you all creatively inspired, then we send you home on the creative buzz!
Catherine has been weaving since 1984 and has taught weaving at the Midwest Weavers Conference, for the Wisconsin Handweavers, Inc and has also been a longtime teacher at the WMQFA. She is a member of Cedar Creek Unique Collectibles in Cedarburg and enjoys creating a variety of fabrics, including scarves, hand towels, table runners, placemats, and rugs on her several looms. In addition to offering her fiber arts at Cedar Creek Unique Collectibles, Catherine participates in a dozen juried art fairs annually. Catherine is a member of the Wisconsin Designer Craft Council, Cedarburg Artists Guild, and the Wisconsin Handweavers.
Catherine has been weaving since 1984 and has taught weaving at the Midwest Weavers Conference, for the Wisconsin Handweavers, Inc and has also been a longtime teacher at the WMQFA. She is a member of Cedar Creek Unique Collectibles in Cedarburg and enjoys creating a variety of fabrics, including scarves, hand towels, table runners, placemats, and rugs on her several looms. In addition to offering her fiber arts at Cedar Creek Unique Collectibles, Catherine participates in a dozen juried art fairs annually. Catherine is a member of the Wisconsin Designer Craft Council, Cedarburg Artists Guild, and the Wisconsin Handweavers.
Catherine has been weaving since 1984. She is a member of the Cedar Creek Unique Collectibles in Cedarburg. She enjoys creating a variety of fabrics, including scarves, hand towels, table runners, placemats, and rugs on her several looms. She has taught weaving at the WMQFA, at the Midwest Weavers Conference, and for the Wisconsin Handweavers, Inc. In addition to offering her fiber arts at Studio 6, Catherine participates in a dozen juried art fairs annually. Catherine is a member of the Wisconsin Designer Craft Council, Cedarburg Artists Guild, and the Wisconsin Handweavers.
Catherine has been weaving since 1984. She is a member of the Cedar Creek Unique Collectibles in Cedarburg. She enjoys creating a variety of fabrics, including scarves, hand towels, table runners, placemats, and rugs on her several looms. She has taught weaving at the WMQFA, at the Midwest Weavers Conference, and for the Wisconsin Handweavers, Inc. In addition to offering her fiber arts at Studio 6, Catherine participates in a dozen juried art fairs annually. Catherine is a member of the Wisconsin Designer Craft Council, Cedarburg Artists Guild, and the Wisconsin Handweavers.
Catherine has been weaving since 1984. She is a member of the Cedar Creek Unique Collectibles in Cedarburg. She enjoys creating a variety of fabrics, including scarves, hand towels, table runners, placemats, and rugs on her several looms. She has taught weaving at the WMQFA, at the Midwest Weavers Conference, and for the Wisconsin Handweavers, Inc. In addition to offering her fiber arts at Studio 6, Catherine participates in a dozen juried art fairs annually. Catherine is a member of the Wisconsin Designer Craft Council, Cedarburg Artists Guild, and the Wisconsin Handweavers.
I grew up in central Massachusetts in an area of old textile mill towns. Both my parents made things: my mom sewed a lot of her own clothes as well as clothes for four kids, and my dad made furniture. They were both very skilled—nothing ever looked homemade—and while they took pride in their work, they never considered themselves craftspeople or artists. They had careers (my dad was an engineer, my mom an educator with two masters degrees), but having grown up during the depression, they, like others of their generation, did not spend money if they could help it! When you needed something, you made it yourself.
“I started making things when I was little, and never stopped.” - Denyse Schmidt
