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“Eyes on the Center” will look at the sometimes surprising ways quiltmakers have directed attention to the centers of their quilts as quilt styles changed over the years. Although repeated-block quilts dominated the art through most of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Kari will show how the central-focus style quilt survived and even occasionally revived during this time, using her small-scale renditions of historical quilts as examples.
Kari Ronning, a long-time quilter and student of quilt patterns and quilt history, worked with the Nebraska State Quilt Project and wrote and co-wrote several chapters of Nebraska Quilts and Quiltmakers. She has also served as president of the Lincoln Quilters Guild, as well as in other offices of the Guild. Kari recently retired from the UNL English department, where she is an editor of the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition.
“Eyes on the Center” will look at the sometimes surprising ways quiltmakers have directed attention to the centers of their quilts as quilt styles changed over the years. Although repeated-block quilts dominated the art through most of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Kari will show how the central-focus style quilt survived and even occasionally revived during this time, using her small-scale renditions of historical quilts as examples.
Kari Ronning, a long-time quilter and student of quilt patterns and quilt history, worked with the Nebraska State Quilt Project and wrote and co-wrote several chapters of Nebraska Quilts and Quiltmakers. She has also served as president of the Lincoln Quilters Guild, as well as in other offices of the Guild. Kari recently retired from the UNL English department, where she is an editor of the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition.
