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Marcia Kaylakie is an author, 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 and has curated the quilt exhibit Eye of the Needle,
at the Quattro Gallery in Austin. Her book, Texas Quilts and
Quilters-A Lone Star Legacy, has received the Writers’ League of
Texas Violet Crown Award in non-fiction for 2008.
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 where she currently
serves as 2nd vice President in charge of long range planning and
education, the Austin Texas Area Quilt Guild, American Quilter’s
Society, the International Quilt Association, the American Quilt Study
Group where she currently serves as Central Texas Area Representative,
and the Alliance for American Quilts.
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Professional Memberships
American
Quilter’s Society
Professional Association of Appraisers-Quilted Textiles
International
Quilt Association
American
Quilt Study Group
Austin
Area Quilt Guild
Contact Marcia:
Marcia Kaylakie
3703 Turkey Creek Dr.
Austin, TX 78730
512-502-0383
texasquiltgal@earthlink.net
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