{"id":35230,"date":"2015-02-06T10:21:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T14:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=35230"},"modified":"2022-09-26T10:06:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T14:06:48","slug":"womens-studies-quilt-show-raises-money-for-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/02\/06\/womens-studies-quilt-show-raises-money-for-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Studies Quilt Show raises money for scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_35232\" style=\"width: 241px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2015\/02\/quilt-show-15105-016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35232\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35232\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2015\/02\/quilt-show-15105-016-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"Brenda Hanes presentation\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenda Hanes of Stewart Heritage Farm, Alpaca Yarns, presented \u201cAlpaca from Farm to Fashion\u201d at the Women\u2019s Studies Quilt Show.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Handmade quilts depicting sawtooth cats, a pile of pineapples and other colorful designs were unspooled at Wright State University\u2019s second annual Women\u2019s Studies Quilt Show.<\/p>\n<p>Titled \u201cCelebrating Women\u2019s Studies through Quilt Stories,\u201d the show was held Jan. 30-31 in the Student Union Apollo Room.<\/p>\n<p>The show featured 10 quilted wall hangings in a silent auction designed to begin building the Women\u2019s Studies Scholarship Fund.<\/p>\n<p>There were also community engagement opportunities through fiber arts; classes on tatting, a form of handmade lace; and a presentation on alpaca farming and yarn titled \u201cFrom Farm to Fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The featured speaker was Lois McFarland, a quilter who talked about the journey of &#8220;The Jazz Cat Quilt,&#8221; a memorial quilt dedicated to her husband, Charles &#8220;Budge&#8221; McFarland, a former faculty member.<\/p>\n<p>One attendee said she was surprised at how a single quilt can represent so much history, meaning and passion.<\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s Studies is an interdisciplinary program that places women at the center of inquiry and examines how gender influences personal identities, cultural and artistic expressions, social arrangements, political and economic systems and ways of knowing and understanding the world.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/liberal-arts.wright.edu\/womens-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bachelor of Arts program in Women&#8217;s Studies<\/a> is organized around feminist thought and women in multicultural and international perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second annual Women\u2019s Studies Quilt Show celebrated Women\u2019s Studies through quilt stories. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/02\/06\/womens-studies-quilt-show-raises-money-for-scholarships\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":35231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,2037,725,747,715,4855],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-arts-scene","category-home-news-sidebar","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-social-sciences-and-international-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129467,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35230\/revisions\/129467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}