This just came through my email….
Quilter’s Heritage has been in Lancaster for years. Rita Barber announced her retirement after the show last April.

Subject: AQS Announces 4th Quilt Show

Press Release

Contact: Bonnie Browning, 270-898-7903, ext. 146
bonniebrowning@AQSquilt.com

Paducah, Kentucky – August 19, 2009: Today AQS President Meredith Schroeder announced plans for the American Quilter’s Society (AQS) to hold a fourth quilt show in 2010.

AQS will produce a new show in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, March 24 – 27, 2010, at the new Lancaster County Convention Center. The AQS Quilt Show & Contest – Lancaster will feature a quilt contest with $44,000 in cash awards. A special category in the contest is Grand Geometrics – Created the Amish Way. “We are pleased to bring an AQS Quilt Show to Lancaster and the southeastern Pennsylvania area, and to provide another opportunity for quilters to enter our contests and be recognized for their artistry,” stated Schroeder. AQS has signed a three-year agreement to hold this event in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

“We’re thrilled at the prospect of welcoming the American Quilter’s Society (AQS) and one of this country’s top quilting shows to the new Lancaster County Convention Center (LCCC),” remarked Josh Nowak, director of sales & marketing with the LCCC.

“We can’t think of a better setting for the AQS Quilt Show & Contest than Lancaster County – home to a rich quilting heritage within our Amish community, and where this art form continues to thrive today,” said Christopher Barrett, president and CEO of the PA Dutch Convention & Visitors Bureau. “The 2010 AQS Quilt Show presents an undeniably alluring opportunity for local and national quilters alike to share their creative process and outcomes, in a setting recognized worldwide for its beautifully manicured quilt of farms and fields.”

AQS also holds events in Paducah, Kentucky (pending for 2010); Knoxville, Tennessee (July 14 – 17, 2010); and Des Moines, Iowa (October 6 – 9, 2010).

Contest rules are available on the AQS Web site, www.AmericanQuilter.com. Registration guides for each show will be available online as soon as they are completed. To order a printed registration guide, send $2.00 for each guide to: AQS, Attn: (name of show) Registration Guide, PO Box 3290, Paducah, KY 42002-3290.

In addition to the AQS Web site and the AQS Blogs (AQS Quilt News, AQS Publishing, and American Quilter magazine), quilters can now become a fan of AQS on Facebook, and follow AQS on Twitter. The AQS quilting community grows again!

For lodging and general information on American Quilter’s Society shows, go to www.AmericanQuilter.com, or call 270-898-7903.

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I wrote a while back about the upcoming quilt exhibit in 2010 at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, UK.

Here is more info that was put on their site about it:  http://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/future_exhibs/Quilts/

Also: http://www.vam.ac.uk/things-to-do/blogs/quilts-hidden-histories-untold-stories/home

Photos are the Museum’s.

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This is from the previous blog:

FUTURE EXHIBITIONS at the Victoria and Albert Museum, U.K.

Quilts

20 March – 18 July 2010

This exhibition will showcase the V&A’s collection of patchwork and quilted covers to bring together over 300 years of British quilting history, from the spectacular bed hangings and silk coverlets of the 18th century, to the creative reinvention of the quilt by contemporary artists.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/index.html

If you’re planning a trip to U.K. during the exhibit, you’ll want to get to the V & A Museum!

Mancusco is putting on the World Quilt Show – New England from August 13 – 16, 2009, at The  Radisson Center of New Hampshire in Manchester, NH.

Here is the site for more info: http://www.quiltfest.com/default.asp

I have not had the opportunity of attending one of their shows, but I have heard that they are well done.  Perhaps someone who has had the experience will write a comment……..

Opening Act, by Quilt Artist Elaine Quehl from Ontario, Canada

The  Museum’s photo.

This piece, at the Whistler Gallery, is one in the “Quiltscapes at the Whistler.”   This exhibit is on August 5 – 29, 2009, with an Artist Reception on Saturday, 2 – 4PM.   For more info, go to:  http://www.whistlerhouse.org/exhibits_lowell_massachusetts.php

This is part of the New England Quilt Festival, on next weekend, August  5- 8, 2009, in Lowell, Massachusetts.  There are many exhibits throughout the downtown area, with more than 500 quilts to see.

The Brush Art Gallery ‘s exhibit,  ART QUILTS LOWELL 2009, is August 5 – September 19, 2009. There will be an Artist Reception on Saturday, August 8, 3 – 5PM.  Their site is: http://www.thebrush.org/exhibitions.htm

“Images 2009” is at the Tsongas Arena.

A Sense of Balance is the exhibit at the  Boott Cotton Mills Museum gallery. See: http://www.lowell.com/boott-cotton-mills-museum.php

Fabrication of Imagination, is at the ALL Gallery, August 1 – 30, 2009,  246 Market Street, opposite the National Park Visitor Center in the Market Mills.  There will be an Artist Reception on Saturday, the 8th, from 2 – 4PM.     For more info: http://www.examiner.com/x-7238-Boston-Artisans-Examiner~y2009m8d1-The-Fabrication-of-Imagination-exhibit-in-Lowell-MA

What Followed Me Home is the exhibit at the American Textile History Museum until August 23, 2009. Their site: http://www.athm.org/future_exhibitions.htm