Textile Talks

I interviewed the talented Victoria Findlay Wolfe about her new book and her latest quilt exhibitions. Her book includes fascinating personal quilter histories from the trove of oral histories in the Quilt Alliance Save Our Stories collection.

Cecilia Koppmann Shares the Healing Power of Quilts in an Interview with Teresa Duryea Wong. Cecilia Koppmann is an award-winning artist based in Argentina who is known for her striking, modern quilts, as well as her generous teaching style. Throughout her adult life, Cecilia believes the art of quilting has rescued her multiple times, specifically during two different bouts with cancer, the pandemic, as well as moments of personal stress. In this interview by Teresa Duryea Wong, Cecilia will share how the power of quilts has helped her heal in her own life, and how others can apply these life lessons to their own journeys.

An oral history interview with Native American Quilter Susan Hudson. Susan creates beautiful story quilts about her history, her family, and her Navajo/Dine culture. Each quilt carries deeply embedded messages, and her quilts are incredible works of art.

When Eli Leon died, he bequeathed 3,000 African American quilts to the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. Some 500 were made by the famed artist Rosie Lee Tompkins. Teresa Duryea Wong interviewed Associate Curator & Academic Liaison Elaine Yau to get the inside story of how one mid-size museum became a major holder of thousands of quilts seemingly overnight.  Available on YouTube – free and open to everyone.