Lecture fees are $375 and are presented in a Power Point format.
A trunk show of hand-dyed fabrics and threads and small art quilts is included.
See Laura’s Contract for more information.

Art Quilts: The Musical

Join Laura in celebrating the life of a quilt artist. Listen to her adventures in quilt making and hear traditional art quilt folk songs like “Everybody Gets Rejected Sometime” and the “Minnesota Quilter’s Polka”. It’s a quirky documentary featuring a display of her small art quilts and many other songs from the “Chicago School of Fusing Bond Fire Songbook”.

I Quilt, Therefore, I Am

A colorful and humorous history of the artist’s life presented with slides of her narrative quilts like “Gus Cleans His Room” and “Nude Blue Chair Reclining”. The biographical section of the slide show is followed by information about the design process and techniques used in creating her quilts. A selection of tunes from the Chicago School of Fusing Bond Fire Songbook will be sung throughout the lecture by the intrepid lecturer. After the lecture, there will be a display of small art quilts and trunk show of hand dyed fabric and threads from the Artfabrik dyers.

Chicago School of Fusing Guided Tour

Take a campus tour of the famous Chicago School of Fusing. This mythological university is devoted to the promotion of the fine art of fusing, a non-traditional method of assembling quilts with fusible web. Laura Wasilowski, Dean of Corrections at the School, guides you around the campus buildings, introduces you to the fascinating fusing curriculum, and shows you the exciting campus life of the student fuser. Included in the presentation is a review of the fusing processes, a display of actual fused art quilts, and Laura’s own rendition of the Chicago School of Fusing fight song. Press on! (A trunk show of hand dyed fabrics and threads from the Artfabrik dyers is included.)

Stitcher-tunities

Delight in the stitch! From the hand-dyeing of her pearl cotton threads to the final stitch, Laura tells all about her colorful hand-embroidered fused art quilts. Learn how she makes the quilts, dyes the thread, and selects the stitches to use on the quilt tops. Placement of stitches and other helpful tips will inspire you to add hand embroidery to your own work. The program includes a set of catchy tunes sung about the art of embroidery like “Glory to the Stitcher” and an exhibit of her small stitched art quilts.

So Many Chickens, So Little Time: Diary of a Serial Quilter

Explore the artist’s quirky mind with this lecture about quilt making in a series. Enjoy the revelation that one chicken quilt will surely lead to a second, third or fortieth. And discover what drives a person to create multiple quilts about a blue chair, garden implements, or unsung kitchen appliances. All is revealed in this exposé, the Diary of a Serial Quilter. After the lecture, which includes dramatic renditions from Songs of the Fuser, Laura will display her small quilts (“mini-series quilts”) and offer a trunk show of hand dyed fabric and threads from the Artfabrik dyers.