Contacts:
Jane Howell, MSU
Billings Library Director, 657-2320
Dan Carter, University
Relations, 657-2269
January 17, 2008
MSU Billings Library Annual
Quilt Show Now on Display
40 quilts from
university employees and their families on can
be viewed through Feb. 29
MSU
Just inside the Montana
State University Billings Library, however, are
several reminders of the warmth and strength of
fabric and stitching. And as students began
spring semester this week, they were welcomed to
the library by about 40 colorful, festive and
warm quilts that are on display.
The fifth annual MSU Billings
Library Quilt Show is on display through Feb. 29
at the university’s main campus,
The show, started in 2004
with a handful of quilts donated by the faculty,
has been the brainchild and passion of Kathy
Gurney, who works with the administrative
support staff at the library. A quilter herself,
Gurney favors the bold colors and patterns and
contributes to the items that hang from various
parts of the library’s ceiling on the main
floor.
Complementing the quilts of
various sizes and colors are a few displays of
the history of quilts in
According to MSU Billings
Library Director Jane Howell, the show has been
well received by faculty, staff and students at
MSU Billings. Employees have contributed quilts
they have constructed as well as items collected
by them or their families, Howell said.
“We have quilts large and small, modern and traditional – something to interest all quilt lovers,” she said.
A few quilters have
completed projects especially for this year’s
show, Howell said, and others are sharing quilts
that have won awards in various competitions or
quilts that have been made to celebrate special
occasions. A favorite aspect of the show,
however, is hearing the stories behind the
quilts.
“Every quilt has a story,
and we try to include a little of that story
with the description of each quilt,” Howell
said. “A library is full of stories, and this is
one more way to tell the story of our
community.”
The public is invited to
view the MSU Billings Library Quilt Show during
the regular spring semester library hours:
Mondays-Thursdays from 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.;
Fridays from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturdays from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sundays from noon to 10
p.m.
For more details about the MSU Billings Library, check out the Web site at www.msubillings.edu/library, or call 657-2262. Photos of some of the quilts on display may be found on the MSU Billings University Relations Web page .
PHOTOS ABOVE:
Kathy Gurney, an employee at the Montana
State University Billings Library, has
coordinated the annual quilt shows since
they began in 2004. Her work is on
display at the library with about 40
other quilts during the 2008 show, on
display through Feb. 29.
Also shown are some
of the quilts contributed by MSU
Billings employees or their families to
the 2008 MSU Billings Library Quilt
Show.
