Program – Success Stories: What it Takes to Make it Big in Quilts

Meg Cox has used her expertise as a financial journalist (including 17 years as a staff writer for the Wall Street Journal) to research the biggest names in quilting and uncover their secrets to success. She’ll talk about lessons learned by icons from Eleanor Burns to Tula Pink, as well as the strategies of people who found fortune but not fame in quilting (you won’t know their names). Her PowerPoint lecture will inspire you — whether or not you want to make a profit from your passion.  A professional journalist since graduating from college, Meg was a staff writer for the Wall Street Journal for 17 years, where her beats ranged from agriculture to the business of the arts. Since leaving the WSJ in 1994, she has written four non-fiction books including a resource guide for quilters published by Workman. She has taken readers behind the scenes of the quilt world since 2008 through her popular newsletter Quilt Journalist Tells All. Meg has lectured to hundreds of guilds and groups and taught quilting at the Newark Museum and the American Folk Art Museum in NY. Her writing on quilts has appeared everywhere from quilt magazines to the WSJ. She has been a staff writer for Quiltfolk magazine since 2018.Meg served on the advisory board of the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, NE for seven years and still sits on the Exhibitions Committee. Previously she served as a board member and then president of the nonprofit Quilt Alliance, whose quilter interviews are archived at the Library of Congress. Meg has been making quilts since her mother taught her in 1988 and belongs to two guilds, an art quilt guild and a modern quilt guild. Find out more: www.megcox.com              
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