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The Quilt Treasures Project is an oral history project that documents the stories of a number of notable individuals who were instrumental in moving the 20th Century Quilt Revival forward in some significant way. These individuals include: * quilt makers * designers * business people * collectors * historians and other scholars * publishers Quilt Treasures seeks to make this documentary material available in two different kinds of media: * digitally on the web through web portraits * mini-documentaries in archival form in a museum repository These Web portraits are intended for the use of researchers and students in the field of quilt history and have been featured in both scholarly publications, such as Uncoverings, the academic journal of the American Quilt Study Group, and popular magazines for quilters, including the Quilter's Newsletter. The project is a collaboration of the Alliance for American Quilts, the Michigan State University Museum, and MATRIX: Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences OnLine. ==Web portraits== The Quilt Treasures Web portraits feature biographies and videotaped interviews, mini-documentaries, photos, a timeline of activities, bibliographies and other resources relating to each individual. Other components have been developed as needed based on the interviewee’s life and work. These components have included testimonies from friends and/or colleagues, exhibit histories, teaching portfolios, and poetry. Individuals currently documented with web portraits include: * Virginia Avery * Cuesta Benberry, scholar on the history of African American quilting * Jinny Beyer, professional quilter and fabric designer * David and Patricia Crosby, founders of Mississippi Cultural Crossroads * Joyce Gross, editor and publisher, The Quilt Journal (1977–1987) * Bonnie Leman, founder of Quilter's Newsletter Magazine * Jean Ray Laury * Yvonne Porcella * Bets Ramsey, co-founder of the Tennessee Quilt Project * Hystercine Rankin * Mary Schafer * Merry Silber * Woodard and Greenstein 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Quilt Treasures」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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