Teresa Duryea Wong

Author

Teresa

2022

Dates

Full list of lectures and keynote presentations in 2022.

Jan. 5 – Santa Monica Quilt Guild. Santa Monica, CA. Topic:
Native American Quilt Stories: 150 Years of Sewing and Survival.

Jan. 11 – Quilter’s Guild of Arlington. Arlington, TX.
Topic: Native American Quilt Stories: 150 Years of Sewing and Survival

Jan. 13 – Heartstring Quilters Guild. Bala Cywnwyd,
Pennsylvania. Topic: Quilts, Cotton & Indigo from Japan.

Jan. 18 – Vienna Quilters Unlimited. Vienna, VA. Topic:
Japan’s Quilt History

Feb. 10 – Quilter’s Guild of East Texas. Topic: Big Love:
Texas Quilts and Cotton.

Feb. 17 – Quiltcon Phoenix. Topic: Hello Modern Art. Meet
Antique Quilts.

Feb. 19 – Quiltcon Phoenix. Joint lecture with Sara Trail.
Topic: Activist Art: The Social Justice Sewing Academy Remembrance Project.

Mar. 5 – NY Metromod Quilters Guild. New York, NY. Topic:
Japan’s Quilt History.

Mar. 8 – Towpath Quilt Guild. Syracuse, NY. Topic: Japan’s
Quilt History.

Mar. 10 – Quilter’s Guild of Plano. Plano, Texas. Topic:
Hello Modern Art. Meet Antique Quilts.

Mar. 15 – Denton Quilt Guild, Denton, Texas. Topic: Native
American Quilt Stories: 150 Years of Sewing and Survival

Mar. 16 – Peoria Riverfront Museum, Peoria, IL. Topic:
Hello Modern Art. Meet Antique Quilts. In conjunction with exhibition of quilts
from Ken Burns Collection. Online Zoom – open to public.

May 31 – Visions Art Museum. San Diego, California. Topic:
Hello Modern Art. Meet Antique Quilts. OPEN TO PUBLIC 11 AM

June 6 – Tall Pines Quilt Guild, Huntsville, TX. Topic:
Native American Quilt Stories: 150 Years of Sewing and Survival.

June 13 – University United Methodist Church Quilt Guild.
San Antonio, Texas. Topic: American Cotton: Farm to Quilt.

June 16 – Quaking Aspen Quilt Guild. Golden, Colorado.
Topic: Japan 2.0: The Next Gen Quilters.

June 26 – Cambridge Modern Quilt Guild. Cambridge, MA.
Topic: American Cotton: Farm to Quilt.

July 11 – Smoky Mountain Quilters Guild of Western North
Carolina. Topic: Native American Quilt Stories: 150 Years of Sewing &
Survival.

July 28 – Orange County Modern Quilt Guild. Orange Cty, CA.
Topic: Hello Modern Art. Meet Antique Quilts.

Sept. 8 – Cibolo Creek Quilters Guild. Boerne, Texas.
Topic: Hello Modern Art. Meet Antique Quilts.

Sept. 20 – Boundary Bay Quilters’ Guild. Delta, British
Columbia, Canada. Indigenous North American Quilts: 150 Years of Sewing and
Survival.

Oct. 11 – Arlington Quilters Guild, Arlington, Texas.
Topic: Hello Modern Art. Meet Antique Quilts.

Oct. 17 – Hill Country Quilt Guild. Kerrville, Texas.
Topic: Farm to Quilt: American Cotton. In person lecture.

Oct. 29 – Arizona Quilt Study Group. Statewide. Topic:
Native American Quilt Stories: 150 Years of Sewing and Survival

Nov. 4 – Houston INTERNATIONAL QUILT FESTIVAL – 10 am. GRB
Convention Center, Houston, TX. Topic: Native American Quilt Stories: 150 Years
of Sewing and Survival

Nov. 8 – Capital District MQG. Delmar, NY. Topic: Hello
Modern Art. Meet Antique Quilts.

    The Blue One

    My Quilts

    By Teresa Duryea Wong. 2020. 65 x 65 inches. Created from 2,475 bits of tiny fabric. Improvisationally pieced. Each piece has its own free-motion quilting motif. Fabrics are all from Marcia Derse collections. “The Blue One” was juried into the 2020 International Quilt Festival in Houston and the 2021 Quiltcon show in Phoenix.

    Harvest

    My Quilts

    By Teresa Duryea Wong. 2021. 65 x 65 inches. Includes over 3,000 tiny bits of improvisational pieced yellow gold fabric. Each piece features its own free-motion quilting motif. “Harvest” was juried into the 2021 Quiltcon exhibition in Phoenix. “Harvest” was also exhibited at the New England Quilt Museum as part of the String Theory exhibition.

    On The Road

    Homepage Posts

    Quilt research inside the archives of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. And of course all good quilt study requires a great photo. My research focused on a collection of mid-20th century quilts made in the Great Plains region. You can read more about these quilts and their makers in my new book “Sewing & Survival.”

    Quiltfolk Guest Editor

    Press Posts

    TEXAS HILL COUNTRY: Lyle Lovett’s famous lyrics “You’re not from Texas, but Texas wants you anyway,” speaks to folks like my parents, who are not from Texas, but got here as soon as they could. I’ve been here my whole life.
    I was born in Houston and spent my high school years in a small town not far from the Hill Country. True to my Texas roots, I learned to ride horses quite young, second grade in fact. After school let out, we’d run to my friend’s house and take off riding bareback, barefoot, and unsupervised. In junior high, I got my own horse and rode him nearly every day for the next 6 years. In high school, we worshiped Friday-night football and spent Saturday’s riding horses during the day and riding around town at night listening to rock and roll on eight-track tapes.
    Quilting was not part of my life until much later, when I met a friend whose exquisite quilts gave me an awakening. I suddenly realized that quilts were art, and I wanted in.
    Writing for Quiltfolk has brought me back to my early days as a journalist, and I love interviewing and capturing the stories of creative people! As a quilt researcher and author, I’ve interviewed Texas luminaries such as Karey Bresenhan and Kathleen McCrady, and Quiltfolk brought me back to Kathleen’s story when I got to hang out with her daughter-in-law, Rosie. Heck, thanks to Quiltfolk, I even got to spend an afternoon with Jane Dunnewold. Spoiler alert: we conducted our interview on her couch (which just happens to be upholstered in fabulous Jane Dunnewold fabric).
    Traveling for the Hill Country edition also brought me back to the Texas Quilt Museum for a photoshoot with my quilt pals Kathy Moore, Kate Adams, and Suzanne Labry, who also happen to be scholars and authors like me. You’ll meet them too in the story about the Bybee Scholars.
    I’ll never leave Texas. It’s my home and part of my identity. Quiltfolk made a brilliant choice to cover the Hill Country first. And when we come back to the Lone Star state for the next Quiltfolk Texas edition, I’ll be along for that ride too.

    Guest on Quilting Arts Podcast

    Press Posts

    Quilting Arts Podcast hosts Vivika Hansen DeNegre and Susan Brubaker Knapp recently interviewed me about modern art, antique quilts, social justice, and more! Listen to Episode 27.

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