Interview with Kim McLean, November 1, 2002
Project: Quilt Alliance’s Quilters' S.O.S.- Save Our Stories Oral History Project: International Quilt Festival
Interview Summary
Kim McLean, an Australian quiltmaker, discusses her love for quilting, including how she became interested in quilting, the earliest encounter with quilts that she remembers, the local quiltmakers that she teaches in Australia, and the quilts that were present at the interview. She talks about her family's support of her hobby and the different characteristics that she thinks make a powerful quilt and quilter. Also, the presence of quilts in Australian museums and the possibility of her quilts being in a museum is discussed in depth.Interview Accession
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All rights to the Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories (QSOS) oral history project, including but not restricted to legal title, copyrights and literary property rights, have been transferred from the Quilt Alliance to the University of Kentucky Libraries. Please contact the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History regarding rights pertaining to individual interviews.
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McLean, Kim Interview by Jo Frances Greenlaw. 01 Nov. 2002. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
McLean, K. (2002, November 01). Interview by J. F. Greenlaw. Quilt Alliance’s Quilters' S.O.S.- Save Our Stories Oral History Project: International Quilt Festival. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
McLean, Kim, interview by Jo Frances Greenlaw. November 01, 2002, Quilt Alliance’s Quilters' S.O.S.- Save Our Stories Oral History Project: International Quilt Festival, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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