Episode 3: Quilt Makers and Quilting Group Organizers – Dr Carolyn Mazloomi and Felicity Khan

Covid Conversations Episode 3 features two quilters and quilting group organizers. Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi, who lives in West Chester, Ohio, is a quilter, quilt scholar, curator, founder of the Women of Color Quilters Network. She’s received many honors, including being named as a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2014, which is the highest award given in the United States for traditional arts. Carolyn is also a trained aerospace engineer. Felicity Khan is based close to Cape Town in South Africa. She has been sewing all her life. She has formed several patchwork and quilting groups and teaches theses craft to others. Felicity was formerly a board member of the Good Hope Quilters Guild - which is the Western Cape of South Africa’s patchwork and quilting umbrella body - and served as its Outreach Liaison person. More information about the Unmask Your Creativity competition discussed in the podcast can be found here: wcqn.org/unmask-your-creativity-contest. Episode 3 was recorded on Saturday November 7th, 2020. Mastered by Paul Kotheimer at the Ohio State University. Music from https://pixabay.com/music Covid Conversations: Life in a Time of Corona is a 12-part podcast series from the Ohio State University’s (OSU) Center for Folklore Studies. To find out more about the OSU Center for Folklore Studies, where the full recordings of each Covid Conversation will be archived along with contextual information about each episode, please visit go.osu.edu/covidconversations. The series is funded by an OSU Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme grant. Its 12 episodes will be published between September 2020 and August 2021. It is produced and presented by radio producer and folklorist Rachel Hopkin. To find out more about Rachel Hopkin, please visit www.rachelhopkin.com.