Project curator and co-author:

Marin Hanson is the International Quilt Museum’s (IQM) curator of international collections and is responsible for building and interpreting the museum’s non-Western collection. She earned an MA in Museum Studies and Textile History from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a PhD in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester (UK). Hanson has been a curator at the IQM since 2001 and is editor of Abstract Design in American Quilts at 50 (2021) and co-editor of American Quilts in the Modern Age, 1870-1940 (2009). She is project curator for the IQM’s World Quilts website and contributor to several of its modules.

Co-authors:

Carolyn Ducey is curator of collections at the International Quilt Museum (IQM), a position she has held since 1998. Ducey oversees acquisition and management of the IQM collection of more than 8,500 quilts. Ducey earned an MA in American Art History from Indiana University in 1998, and her PhD in Textiles, Clothing & Design, with an emphasis in Quilt Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2010. She is co-editor of American Quilts in the Industrial Age 1760-1870 (2018) and co-author of What’s in a Name: Inscribed Quilts (2012).

Penelope McMorris produced and hosted the television series “Quilting,” which aired on PBS and the BBC, and “The Great American Quilt” for PBS. She authored Crazy Quilts (1984) and coauthored The Art Quilt (1986) with Michael Kile. She served as the corporate art curator for Owens-Corning Corporation, and is a partner in The Electric Quilt Company, creating computer design software for quilt makers.