08/05/26 - VIRTUAL THREAD Talk - Robert Bosscher - 8-9pm
What are THREAD talks?
THREAD talks is a virtual lecture series featuring a new guest speaker each month.
Lectures are live at 8pm Eastern time on the first Wednesday of each month, and cover all sorts of topics of interest to quilters and makers.
Each lecture is $35, or you can join Club Gotham to get a year's worth of THREAD talks for just $125!
THREAD talk lectures are included with a Club Gotham membership. Club members, add the lecture to your cart while logged into your account to get the automatic discount. You must register for each lecture you are interested in to receive the link to watch.
Are you a Club Gotham member?
THREAD talk lectures are included with you Club Gotham membership.
To register, add the lecture to your cart while logged into your account. When you reach the checkout page, your Club discount will be applied.
You must register for each lecture you are interested in to receive the link to watch.
This lecture will take place virtually over Zoom. Once you register, you will receive an email with instructions for logging in. All Talks are in Eastern (NYC) time. Talk will not be recorded.
Gotham Quilts is committed to making our events accessible to everyone. If you have any questions about access or to request any reasonable accommodations that will facilitate your full participation in this event, please contact us at US@gothamquilts.com . If you require an accommodation or service to fully participate, please contact us at least 3 days prior to the event.
Pushing Boundaries
An exploration of influences in quilting that should be welcomed, explored further & incorporated more broadly into the modern quilting movement. Ideas including incorporating reused materials, non traditional fabrics, narrative quilts, activist quilts, and incorporating different mediums (ie. paint, print making, and other non-traditional quilt materials) will be explored.
This Discussion is important if Modern Quilting wants to remain relevant as a quilting movement in the quilt world and expand its influence in the art world.
Discussion explores influences, techniques and quilters who are working in these categories - looking at quilts that challenge what modern quilting is.
Participants will be encouraged to experiment with these different techniques in their own work, and seek out ways to explore and expand their own definitions of quilting in general, and the Modern Quilt movement in particular.
Meet Robert J. Bosscher
Robert is an award winning artist who often struggles to know just what that means.
While he has lived in many different places while growing up, he eventually settled in
Grand Rapids, Michigan for college where he studied Studio Art and Art History. While his creative endeavors have included ceramics, painting, and other mediums, his current passion lies in fiber and textile art - namely quilting. He’s been quilting for over a decade and has found that his love of quilts as an artistic medium has allowed him to reconcile his understanding of the divide between the quilting world and the art world. He loves to ask big questions about the quilting world and explore the intersection of artistic design and quilting. As a child of a quilter, he is also drawn to the emotional resonance that quilts have as objects of comfort and care.