Host Rachel Hopkin moderates a conversation between West Chester, Ohio-based quilter and scholar Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi and quilter Felicity Khan of South Africa.

Dr. Mazloomi is a quilter, quilt scholar, curator, and founder of the Women of Color Quilters Network. In 2014, Mazloomi was named a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest award given in the United States for traditional arts. She is also an aerospace engineer. For more information, visit her website at www.carolynlmazloomi.com.

Khan is based close to Cape Town in South Africa. She has been sewing all her life, has formed several patchwork and quilting groups, and teaches her crafts to others. She was formerly a board member of the Good Hope Quilters Guild, the western cape of South Africa’s patchwork and quilting umbrella body, and served as its Outreach Liaison.

More information about the Unmask Your Creativity competition discussed in the podcast can be found at www.wcqn.org/unmask-your-creativity-contest.

Covid Conversations is a podcast series from the Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State University in which artists and humanities professionals from Ohio and their counterparts elsewhere in the world discuss how their lives and work have been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.

The series is funded by an OSU Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme grant and distributed by Ohio Humanities. It is produced and presented by radio producer and folklorist Rachel Hopkin and mastered by Paul Kotheimer at OSU.

Music for this podcast is provided by Pixabay.

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