Textile Talks is a weekly series on YouTube that is free and open to everyone. Sponsored by the Studio Art Quilt Assoc, International Quilt Museum, Quilt Alliance, and Surface Design Assoc. I have had the honor of interviewing some incredible women for this series. Click on Continue Reading for the links.
Cecilia Koppmann Interview
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…
Victoria Findlay Wolfe Interview
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. https://youtu.be/0fPPJyJTJQo
TEXTILE TALK with Susan Hudson
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. https://youtu.be/kPrgFr-tauY
A Must-See Interview
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…