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November Speaker
Lois Wilson
Although Ms. Wilson
has been stitching since childhood and has been involved with both
fabric and design in her work, she did not begin quilting until
1983. A graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan University, she has studied
under several nationally and internationally known quilt
instructors, the most influential of whom is Ruth McDowell.
She is an active
member of the Lincoln Quilters Guild, Nebraska State Quilt Guild,
Contemporary Quilting Group, docent for The International Quilt
Study Center & Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and Friends
of The International Quilt Study Center & Museum Board. Lois has
served as Quilt Show Chair and Vice President for Programs of
Lincoln Quilters Guild as well as Region 1 Director and Secretary
for the Nebraska State Quilt Guild. In addition to chairing First
Quilts (a group providing quilts for each baptized baby) at First
United Methodist Church, Lincoln, she collaborated with five other
church members to create an 8’ by 10’ triptych that hangs in one of
the worship areas.
During the past
twenty-five years, she has contributed at least one art piece each
year to numerous organizations for fund-raising purposes, including:
Omaha Children’s Museum, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Every Woman
Matters, Cedars, Lincoln Library Foundation, West Hartford School
for Young Children, Lincoln Quilters Guild and the Nebraska State
Quilt Guild. An ongoing project is teaching quilting to young women
at Lincoln’s Bryan Community School. Among her accomplishments is
participation in six Lincoln gallery shows devoted to art quilts.
Photographs and
descriptions of her work have been published in Quilting Today
(Issue 65, April 1998), Terrific Triangles by Shelly Burge
(Animas Quilts Publishing, 1995), and 500 Art Quilts, (Lark
Books, 2010). As a member of the Nebraska Quilt Project Committee,
she helped research and compile a list of Nebraska quilts that were
photographed and documented for the book, Nebraska Quilts &
Quiltmakers, Edited by Patricia Cox Crews and Ronald C. Naugle
(University of Nebraska Press, 1991).
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