Empire Quilters invites all quilters and quilt guilds in the Northeast to join us for our 2015 quilt show, "Under a New Star." Saturday March 28, 2015 10 AM-5 PM
Sunday March 29, 2015 10 AM-4 PM
Fashion Institute of Technology
Seventh Avenue and 28th St, New York, NY
We'll be featuring 250 quilts made by guild members, raffling off a gorgeous quilt, and hosting two special programs:
Collecting
Quilts: How and Why, a panel hosted by famed collectible quilter and designer, Paula Nadelstern, and a talk by Barbara Brackman, author of the Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns, who is also well-known for her work on Civil War quilts and their stories. Saturday March 28th Schedule:
11 AM Collecting Quilts: How and Why
2 PM Barbara Brackman
Sunday March 29th Schedule:
11 AM Barbara Brackman
2 PM Collecting Quilts: How and Why
Collecting Quilts Panelists:
- Roderick Kiracofe, collector and author of Unconventional and Unexpected
- Amelia Peck, Curator of the Textile Division, the Metropolitan Museum of New York (Saturday)
- Elizabeth Warren, Curator of the acclaimed Red and White Quilt Show featuring the quilts of collector Joanna Rose
- Sue Reich, noted collector, curator and quilt appraiser (Sunday)
