Enjoy this Virtual Lecture and Fundraiser Supporting the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts from the comfort of your own home and join us along with renowned textile artist, researcher and teacher Rebecca Devaney over Zoom.

$25/ Members | $30/ Nonmembers

Rebecca Devaney’s lecture will tell the fascinating story of how luxury textiles and fashion became woven into the fabric of Paris. The intriguing history of luxury textiles and fashion is revealed through the geography of the winding streets and wide boulevards of Paris. Travelling in Paris from the elegant Opéra district to Le Sentier, once the bustling garment district, we will meet kings, politicians, spies, cloth merchants, milliners, glove-makers, feather-workers, embroiderers and the fiercely independent Midinettes.

Note: To train at the prestigious École Lesage is to be invited to share in more than a century and a half of ever-renewed enthusiasm, talent and expertise. It means getting a chance to learn the techniques mastered – and, in some cases, invented – by one of the world’s greatest embroidery houses.

This lecture will be held via Zoom only. An emailed invitation, with links, will be provided to registrants approximately one to two weeks prior to the tour.

Thank you for supporting WMQFA!

Join WMQFA Executive Director Melissa Wraalstad, Documentation Chair Maribeth Schmit, and Index Manager Darlene Habanek for a FREE virtual chat about the museum’s documentation project.

The Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts grew out of quilt documentations. The Wisconsin Quilts: Stories in the Stitches exhibit is a tribute to that project. But what is a quilt documentation? Why does it matter? And how do they work? Join us to explore quilt documentations, the Quilt Index, and how this all led to WMQFA.

Click here to join the FREE Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87221696032

This program is free, but donations are appreciated! Click here to donate.

This program is possible with the generous support from the American Quilt Study Group, Kohler Foundation, and the Wisconsin Arts Board with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Join artist Kathy Weaver as she explores the intersection of humanity and technology through robots and organic macro-worlds. She’ll share her work, incorporating fiber to express these connections.

This is a free, virtual program, but donations are appreciated. Click here to make a donation.

Click here to watch via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81292520787

For more information about the artist: www.kweaverarts.com

Weaver has exhibited both nationally and internationally including at the International Triennial, Poland, Art Market, Stockholm, Platforms Art Fair, Athens, Dubuque Museum, Rockford Museum, Vision Museum, San Diego, Ukrainian Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Museum of Art and Design, NYC. Solo shows include The Art Center of Highland Park, Illinois, Vision Art Museum, Womenmade Gallery, Chicago, Chicago State University, Gorden Center for Integrative Art, University of Chicago, Concordia College, Olympia Centre, Chicago and Goshen College, Indiana.

Honors include an Illinois Arts Grant, National Endowment for the Arts studio grant, Quilt National Emerging Artist Award, Juror’s award at the Evanston and Vicinity show, Dubuque Museum acquisition award, Rockford Museum Juror’s Award, Mayor Award for the Arts, Highland Park, Il. Weaver worked as an art educator in the public schools. She received an MA from Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

Join Martha Sielman, Executive Director of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA), for a fascinating tour of art quilts telling the history of the Art Quilt Movement from 1960-today. See works by Nancy Crow, Michael James, Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, Katie Pasquini Masopust, Ricky Tims, and more! Learn how art quilts have changed over the past 60 years with innovations in surface design and technology. An hour of inspiration and gorgeous art quilts!

This program is FREE, but donations are greatly appreciated! Click here to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82511811923

WMQFA welcomes Laura Mitchell of Visions Art Museum in San Diego for a virtual conversation on Friday, November 6 at 12pm CST.

Laura will share information about who this museum is: VAM's history, its exhibitions, and its upcoming programs.

This free program will be available via zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84424627790

Registration is not required but donations are appreciated!

Click here for more information or to make a donation.

Join WMQFA on Friday, October 2 at noon CDT for a discussion with Navajo Master Weavers Lynda Pete and Barbara Jean Ornelas for discussion about Navajo weaving work, their families, and a bit about Navajo culture.

This program is free via Zoom or the museum’s Facebook page, but donations are appreciated! Click here to make a donation: https://www.wiquiltmuseum.com/products/dine-navajo-weaving-virtual-chat

Click here to join the Zoom program: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82818332048

Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas are the premiere Navajo Tapestry Weavers. Two Grey Hills Tapestry Weaver Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas are Tabaaha (Water Edge Clan) and born for the To’aheedliinii (Two Waters Flow Together Clan). Lynda and Barbara were raised there along with their siblings at the Two Grey Hills Trading Post. Her mother demonstrated weaving and attracted a constant flow of tourists. Indeed, Ruth Teller’s rugs were so prized that tourists often purchased them right off the loom. Needless to say, as a child, Lynda learned through observation.

https://www.navajorugweavers.com/

Take a behind the scenes tour with modern quilter and author Lee Heinrich!

The program is free, but donations are appreciated: https://www.wiquiltmuseum.com/products/behind-the-scenes-studio-tour-with-lee-heinrich-virtual-chat

Watch via Zoom or on live on Facebook.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81291171950

How has the pandemic influenced and affected artists? Join us to hear from Anne Katz from Arts Wisconsin, Angela Johnson from the Wisconsin Regional Arts Program (WRAP), and Milwaukee artist Heidi Parkes on how this unusual year is impacting artists.

The program is free, but donations are appreciated: https://www.wiquiltmuseum.com/products/artists-in-the-pandemic-virtual-chat

Watch via Zoom or on live on Facebook.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83296053403

For more information about WRAP, click here: https://continuingstudies.wisc.edu/wisconsin-regional-art-program/

For more information about Arts Wisconsin, click here: https://www.artswisconsin.org/

For more information about Heidi Parkes: http://www.heidiparkes.com/

Just in time for Independence Day! Join us on Friday, June 26 at 12pm (CDT) for a virtual chat with staff and students from the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection. The HLATC holds numerous textiles related to American politics, from Federal-era coverlets featuring American eagles, to the earliest presidential campaign ephemera from the 1840s, to a magnificent quilt documenting political gatherings in Progressive-era Wisconsin. A curatorial team from the School of Human Ecology at University of Wisconsin-Madison will share their research on these and other treasures they conducted in preparation for an upcoming exhibition.

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Click here to join the Zoom Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89632524424

The Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection is part of the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Join us Friday, May 22, at noon CDT for a free, Zoom panel discussion with Milwaukee artists Linda Marcus, Heidi Parkes, and Nirmal Raja. Learn about these artists' inspirational practices and creative processes during a lunchtime talk moderated by WMQFA curator Emily Schlemowitz.

About the Artists:
Linda Marcus is a nationally-recognized textile designer and fiber artist whose work embraces the expressive possibilities of fiber alongside less traditional materials.

Heidi Parkes is a decorated quilter and quilt instructor whose evocative quilts utilize textiles from domestic culture, fashion, family heirlooms, and scavenged prints. These cloths are often beset with hand stitching that functions as a layer of “drawing” on the quilts' surface.

Nirmal Raja is an interdisciplinary artist whose sensitive practice examines notions of memory, identity, place, and belonging through a range of materials and processes.

Registration for the panel discussion is not required.
Please click this link to join the Zoom webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87939364481

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