Marikay Waldvogel and Me!
Today was a busy day at the NEQM. We are hosting a symposium with the American Textile History Museum tomorrow, Fabrics, Fashions, and Quilts: From the Armistice to Pearl Harbor. Collections Manager Laura Lane and I changed out some objects in the permanent gallery. We replaced quilts in the drawers of a dresser with fabrics, catalogs, and patterns from the 1930s. These drawers are covered with plexi-glass, so they serve as another type of display case. I learned a new word today: ephemera, which I thought referred to these miscellaneous objects. But when I looked it up, the dictionary says "items designed to be useful or important for only a short time, especially pamphlets, notices, tickets, etc." So I guess it might be used because we only have these objects out temporarily.
We also brought about 15 or so period quilts upstairs from the collections vault and stacked them flat for a "quilt turning" tomorrow. Marikay Waldvogel, our keynote speaker, arrived in the early afternoon. We all worked together putting out the quilts and arranging some artifacts. We had fun looking through some recently donated scrapbooks of pamphlets, and newspaper and magazine articles and patterns dating back to the 1920s and 1930s. It was a treat to meet Marikay because she is a knowledgeable and respected authority in the field of historical quilts, patterns, designers, etc. She is a lecturer and has authored several scholarly articles and books. I have read some of her articles as part of my coursework. And wouldn't you know it, Mariy Kay is a Missouri girl just like me!
We also brought about 15 or so period quilts upstairs from the collections vault and stacked them flat for a "quilt turning" tomorrow. Marikay Waldvogel, our keynote speaker, arrived in the early afternoon. We all worked together putting out the quilts and arranging some artifacts. We had fun looking through some recently donated scrapbooks of pamphlets, and newspaper and magazine articles and patterns dating back to the 1920s and 1930s. It was a treat to meet Marikay because she is a knowledgeable and respected authority in the field of historical quilts, patterns, designers, etc. She is a lecturer and has authored several scholarly articles and books. I have read some of her articles as part of my coursework. And wouldn't you know it, Mariy Kay is a Missouri girl just like me!
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