Ready for a unique opportunity to help your guild grow and flourish? The International Quilt Museum in collaboration with the Quilt Alliance invites you to a groundbreaking program of guild experts, quilt world superstars, and museum luminaries to guide and support you. Purchase your tickets now!
Recharge + Reinvent: A Virtual Retreat for Quilt Guild Leaders will happen October 18-20. This special weekend virtual gathering combines the elements of a must-attend seminar with the vibe, fun and connection of a quilt retreat — complete with door prizes of quilting goodies from IQM’s generous sponsors.
Tickets for this special weekend will go on sale Monday, August 19 at noon for $50. The R + R event starts Friday night and includes programming blocks of about four hours on Saturday and Sunday. Here are some program highlights to whet your appetite:
- Keynote speaker Victoria Findlay Wolfe is a notable artist, teacher, designer, author and founder of the first modern quilt guild in Manhattan.
- Lyric Kinard, co-founder of the Global Quilt Connection which brings guilds and teachers together will lead a panel on creating compelling guild programs on a budget, joined by panelists who have done just that for their own guilds.
- Belle Brunner is a quilt entrepreneur with a background in non-profit consulting and she’ll cover tough issues like how to attract and train new guild leadership.
- A’donna Richardson, founder of the nonprofit African American Quilt Documentation Study Group will share her expertise in documenting the stories of guilds.
- Not only that, experts at the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska will take you behind the scenes of the collection and share exquisite masterpiece quilts. You’ll learn how to take great care of your own quilts from the people responsible for 8,000 of them. Quilt Alliance staff will round out the program with practical tips forcreating low-cost programming that also preserves your guild’s history.
Ticket holders will be able to watch recordings of all these exceptional presentations after the event, complete with the Q + A sessions. So don’t worry if you can’t attend every session.
PLUS every ticket buyer will get a juicy swag box full of museum gift shop merchandise and sponsor products mailed to their home.
Some of the presentations will be posted on the museum’s website after the event, but
only those who buy a ticket for the retreat will see everything and reap extra benefits
for themselves and their guilds! In addition to having personal access to ALL the
program content, attendees will get to pose questions to the presenters and connect
with other guild leaders from across the country, during and after the weekend. Ticket
holders will also receive follow-up resources on topics like the best tech for running
hybrid meetings and how major quilt companies can help guilds.
You may want to grab a ticket early. Not only are spots limited to 200, but the first
100 registrants will receive a free gift certificate from Quiltfolk magazine to attend
one of their on-demand virtual Adventure Workshops — a value of $120!