Marcia Kaylakie is a quilt collector, teacher, judge and appraiser. In addition to exhibiting her quilts at the IQA Festival she has served as a consultant and liaison from her guild to the exhibit, Quilts: Storytelling One Stitch At A Time at the Texas Memorial Museum.  

Marcia's lectures and workshops on American Quilting and History often feature antique and vintage quilts from her own collection as she shows us how American quilts reflect the social, political and economic times in American history. She also teaches classes on quilt care, conservation, storage and documentation.

Marcia is a quilt and quilted textile appraiser certified by the American Quilter’s Society. She is a member of the Professional Association of Appraisers– Quilted Textiles, the Austin Texas Area Quilt Guild, American Quilter’s Society, the International Quilt Association and the American Quilt Study Group. 

Marcia will be the featured speaker at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum on Wednesday, December 2, 12 - 1 PM.  Marcia Kaylakie, author, collector, teacher, appraiser, and quilt lover, for a few of the stories found in the exhibit A Legacy of Quilts: The Briscoe Center's Joyce Gross Collection.  She will focus on the quilts of two extraordinary women, Pine Eisfeller and Bertha Stenge, and their lasting impact on the American quilting world.  This talk is free!

Download the podcast from an interview with Marcia Kaylakie here.  Right click on the link to save the file to your computer.

The picture below shows Marcia (center) receiving the Violet Crown Award for non-fiction at the Capitol in Austin, TX. The young lady to the left in the photo is Margot Brandt, winner of the Teddy Award for children's literature and the woman to the right is Rilla Askew, winner of the Violet Crown Award for fiction.