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NANCY CROW

Nancy has been teaching quiltmaking as an art form for over 25 years; she finds teaching both a very creative experience and uplifting. One of her goals is to help students find a path through roadblocks to a more flexible way of approaching composition. Composition is the focus of all of her 13 workshops in which she proceeds sequentially from beginning to very advanced composition while at the same time introducing many wonderful techniques which can be used in machine-piecing. Nancy promotes machine-piecing as "THE" most important way to work for a quiltmaker, paralleling it to oil painting. Nancy was selected for two national honors: Fellow of the American Craft Council and National Living Treasure by the Museum of World Cultures at the University of North Carolina. The National Living Treasure award honors Americans who work in traditional handicrafts. In addition, she has won many Individual Artist's Fellowships from The Ohio Arts Council. She leads art tours to Peru, Mexico, South Africa, France, and Guatemala, and is the author of six books, including: > Nancy Crow, Nancy Crow: Improvisational Quilts and Nancy Crow: Quilts and Influences.

The Best of Strip-Piecing I & II • Dates: May 7-11, 2012 • Level: beginning to intermediate • Zig zag sewing machine: yes • Materials fee: none • Tuition ($615) & meal plan ($230) per 5-day class: $845 > Tuition, meal plan, accommodations & additional info > Class description and supply list > Registration form Strip-Piecing & Restructuring • Dates: May 14-18, 2012 • Level: beginning to intermediate • Zig zag sewing machine: yes • Materials fee: none • Tuition ($615) & meal plan ($230) per 5-day class: $845 > Tuition, meal plan, accommodations & additional info > Class description and supply list > Registration form Improvisations: Let's Experiment! • Dates: May 21-25, 2012 • Level: intermediate • Zig zag sewing machine: yes • Materials fee: none • Tuition ($615) & meal plan ($230) per 5-day class: $845 > Tuition, meal plan, accommodations & additional info > Class description and supply list > Registration form Lines, Curves, Circles & Figure-Ground Composition: Part I • Dates: May 28-June 1, 2012 • Level: intermediate • Zig zag sewing machine: yes • Materials fee: none • Tuition ($615) & meal plan ($230) per 5-day class: $845 > Tuition, meal plan, accommodations & additional info > Class description and supply list > Registration form