Quilt Symposium '77, Records
Scope and Content:
The collection of quilt symposium records includes publicity information created by members of the Lincoln Quilt Guild to promote the symposium. Selected items from the symposium include a handbag given to participants with the signatures from several of the artists and lecturers who taught or attended the event. Materials from Betty Ferguson include the notes that she took at sessions and lectures that she attended.
Dates
- 1976-1977
Creator
- Lincoln Quilters Guild (Organization)
Language of Materials
English
Restrictions:
None
Access and Use:
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Historical Records Statement:
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Background Note:
In July 1977 the Lincoln Quilters Guild hosted "Quilt Symposium '77 "Fine Art - Folk Art." The symposium was held on the Nebraska Wesleyan campus July 21-23, 1977 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Over six hundred individuals attended the symposium, which presented workshops and lectures by pivotal quilt artists and teachers such as Jean Ray Laury, Michael James, Phyllis Hader, Marcia Sparks, and Helen Squire. Related symposium events included exhibitions, a quilt block contest, and vendor sales.
Extent
1 box (0.4 linear feet)
- Lincoln Quilters Guild
- Quilting - Study and teaching Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Quiltmakers - Nebraska - Lincoln Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Quilts Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Quilts - Study and teaching Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Title
- Quilt Symposium '77, Records
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Date
- 2005
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latg
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries Repository
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