To accommodate students, the Quilt and Fiber Arts University will be held at the museum farm two days this year.  Over 44 workshops will be offered with a $5 fee for each workshop.  Thank you to the faculty as they are teaching complimentary to the museum.  Each of these teachers are gifted with talents which they are willing to share with all!  Students may sign up for four workshops each day.  Some classes have limited enrollment, and some classes charge a kit fee, payable to the teacher.  A potluck lunch will be served each day in the barn. 
Coffee, tea, water, and bakery will be provided during registration.  Please bring a cold salad or dessert to serve eight at the Potluck Luncheon(s).  Service and beverages will be provided. 

Virginia Robertson, Delores, Colorado, and Gail Bird, Sacremento, California will be nationally recognized teachers during the workshops.  Virginia and Gail will be giving presentations during the noon break, one on each day.

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Virginia Robertson, holding a Master of Fine Arts Degree, taught art at three universities, before embarking on a career facilitating creativity through fabric and sewing.  Virginia has taught quilting and dollmaking throughout the US, Europe, New Zealand, and Austrailia.  She teaches at the International Quilt Festival in Houston every year, and was named Dollmaker of the Year in 1997. 

Virginia has designed over 4000 different fabrics for three international fabric companies over the years.  With her husband, Lynn, she has devoted 29 years to
publishing her books and patterns, and has established three quilt shops in three unique locations:  Osage County, Kansas, in a 110 year old church,  a building at the base of Teluride Mountain, and a log cabin in Delores, Colorado.  Virginia believes
that creativity is the breaking of rules to create new solutions.  She teaches options for individual interpretation rather than strict rules.  Virginia’s magnificent samples of her work inspire students and encourage learning at Virginia’s deft hand.  Please see the article about Virginia in this newsletter telling about her classes offered in area quilt shops after the University Days.  Her website is www.virginiarobertson designs.com.

Gail Bird,  has devoted thirty-five years to the art of IGOLOCHKOY.  This word, meaning “with  a little needle” is the term the Ukranian Old Believers call needlepunch embroidery.  Ukranian icons, ceremonial robes, and ethnic costumes are embellished with bright floral designs worked in the stunning texture of punchneedle embroidery. This breathtakingly beautiful needlecraft has been applied to wearables, dolls, doll houses, jewelry, and functional and decorative home accessories, to name a few options.  Gail wrote the first book about needlepunch embroidery for Dover Publications in 1977 and continues to contribute to other magazines and books.  While teaching and lecturing internationally, Gail shares  her  very large and diversified collection, much of which will be in her exhibit at our museum.  Her husband , Richard, is in charge of the production of the tools which Gail uses and offers for sale.  She travels nationwide to sell her products at needle arts shows; her website is www.gailbird.com.
Her love for this fast and simple technique is contagious.  Her classes inspire creativity and the discovery of a “loopy” world of texture and color.  Don’t miss this “zany” and colorful personality coming to the museum and area quilt shops the week of June 8th  & 9th.

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Send your registration form and payment to:
Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts
ATTN:  Faye Junker
P. O. Box 562
Cedarburg, WI 53012
Checks should be made payable to:  Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts