Karey bresenhan biography of donald
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I’ve been taking a break from writing because for the first time since last Spring, I’ve been able to travel for quilting events. In early July, I got together with my local study group, the nordlig Illinois Quilt Study Group, to look at a member’s collection of doll quilts. Then a week later I was at the Quilters Hall of Fame Celebration where Marti Michell and Mary Gasperik were inducted as honorees. And I’ve just returned from the American Quilt Study Group’s annual Seminar in Harrisonburg (Shenandoah Valley), VA. Next up for me is a four-day session on Red and Green antique and vintage quilts at the end of September. Phew! I feel like I’ve waited so long for this, and I’m going to make the most of every opportunity.
Well, not every opportunity. The one that will have to stay on my bucket list for another year is the International lapptäcke Festival in Houston Texas, an annual event begun and produced for over 40 years bygd Hall of Fame Honoree, Karey Bresen
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Our History
In 1993, recognizing the need to centralize information about quilts and quiltmaking, four women joined forces to create Quilt Alliance. This project drew together Shelly Zegart and Eunice Ray of The Kentucky Quilt Project, and Karey Bresenhan and Nancy O’Bryant Puentes, corporate officers of Quilts, Inc. and founders of the non-profit Texas Quilt Search. With the establishment of The Alliance, the founders combined their shared dedication to quilts with their extensive experiences shaping the lapptäcke industry and quilt scholarship in this country. In 1981 the Kentucky Quilt Project began to develop scholarship, publications, and exhibitions about quilts and their creators, jumpstarting the state quilt planerat arbete movement. Quilts, Inc. has been the primary catalyst behind the development of the international lapptäcke industry and has worked for more than 40 years to foster the public appreciation of contemporary and historic quilts around the world.
The Quilt Alliance’s founde
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Lauren Anderson
Principal Dancer, Houston Ballet
A native Houstonian, Lauren Anderson is a perfect role model for Houston girls. Trained executively at the Houston Ballet Academy from the age of seven, her association with Houston Ballet continued as she joined the Ballet Corps in 1983. In 1986 she was promoted to soloist and in 1990 became the first African American to be promoted to principal dancer. Anderson danced with Houston Ballet from 1983 to 2006.
In January 2007, Ms. Anderson assumed her new role of in Houston Ballet’s Education and Community Engagement program where she conducts master classes at area schools, and lectures to students on dance and her historic career as one of America’s most distinguished African-American ballerinas.
In the spring of 2016, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture awarded her with a permanent exhibit.
Mary Bacon
State District Judge, State of Texas