10:00 am,
Monday,
January 13, 2014
Church-Chapel
Convocation:"Amish Quilts:America's First Abstract Art" - Janneken Smucker
Dr. Janneken Smucker is a Goshen College alumna who is
currently a history professor at West Chester State University
in Pennsylvania. She teaches courses in Digital History;
Public History; Material Culture; American social and cultural
history; American Studies; Consumer Culture; and
Globalization.
Dr. Smucker has just published a book: Amish Quilts: The Story
of America's 'First Abstract Art,' exploring these objects and
the people who have made, bought, sold, preserved, and
cherished them. She is also serving as consulting curator for
a permanent exhibition and website interpreting the history of
quilt-making in the western world for the International Quilt
Study Center & Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Contact: Rebecca B Horst, phone (574) 535-7206, email beckybh@goshen.edu
See also: Amish Quilts website