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Current exhibit
Radka Donnell:
The Work of Touch
April 23 - July 12, 2009
Radka Donnell is one of the most important and influential quiltmakers of the past forty years. She was one of the first academically trained artists to adopt the quilt as her medium, and she has pioneered in exploring what quilts can mean and look like, challenging both traditional quiltmakers and the fine arts establishment with her visually powerful and emotionally expressive work. Join us for this comprehensive retrospective of her work to date.
Click here for more about Radka Donnell: The Work of Touch
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Outreach Events
NEQM to Take Part in MITS Summer Institute for K-8 Educators
This July 6-7, the Museum is participating in the Museum Institute for Teaching Science Summer Institutes. Outreach Manager Rhonda Galpern will teach a workshop on teaching water and energy concepts along with LHS teacher Virginia Meyer. Designed as a professional development opportunity for K-8 educators, the Summer Institutes are are two-week professional development workshops that model, teach, and encourage K-8 teachers to use inquiry-based, hands-on methods of teaching science, technology, engineering, and mathematics subjects in their classrooms. Participants can choose to receive 60 PDPs or 4 Graduate Credits and 90 PDPs. Occurring on-site at a variety of institutions throughout the state, the Summer Institutes involve a variety of activities meant to help teachers develop new math, engineering, and science lesson plans and integrate inquiry-based teaching into their classrooms. For more information, or to register for a Summer Institute, visit MITS at www.mits.org
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The Merrimack Collection Buy Now |
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Massachusetts: Our Common Wealth Book |
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Whimsical Quilted Animal Decorations |
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special Events
2009 Lowell Quilt Festival Class Registration is Open
This year's Lowell Quilt Festival will feature an array of classes on everything from piecing to applique to machine quilting, taught by top instructors. Among the internationally-renowned teachers who will be offering classes this year are Jane Sassaman, Carol Doak, Sue Nickels, and Anita Shackleford. Topics include foundation piecing, advanced machine quilting, fabric painting, and more. Classes are available at all levels, from beginner to advanced. Complete class listings and registration forms are available online.
To view the complete list of quilt classes, click here
Radka Donnell Lecture
Saturday, July 11 at 1pm
Radka Donnell was born in Bulgaria and came to the United States in 1951. She studied painting at Stanford
and earned her M.F.A. at the University of Colorado. She began making quilts full-time in 1965 and
has created more than 500 quilts over the past forty-three years, all of which she pieced together by
hand or machine. Trained as an art therapist as well as a painter, Donnell became a champion of
quiltmaking as a women’s healing art, becoming the first quilt artist to take a feminist stance and speak of quilts as a liberation issue. Now eighty years old, Donnell has remained active both as an artist and a teacher. She has written the book Quilts as Women’s Art: A Quilt Poetics, and taught courses on the history, theory and techniques of quilting at both Simmons College and Westfield State College in Massachusetts. She says that she has stayed with quiltmaking because it helped her to find wholeness and be open to enjoy, advise, and validate the creativity of other women. “I believe we are all equally creative,” she says. Join us for an inspiring lecture by this groundbreaking artist July 11.