Candidates for Executive Director of Quilt House to offer public presentations

18 Dec 2013    

Three candidates have been invited to campus to interview for the position of Executive Director of Quilt House, home to the International Quilt Study Center and Museum in the College of Education and Human Sciences, located on UNL’s east campus. Each candidate will make a presentation as part of an open public forum in the Quilt House seminar room on the first day of his or her series of interviews. There will be ample time for questions and answers. The schedule for these presentations is as follows:

Leslie Levy: Monday, January 6, 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Arlette Klaric: Thursday, January 23, 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Robert Shaw: Monday, January 27, 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Interested members of the campus community are invited to attend.

Leslie Levy, is executive director of the Willa Cather Foundation, an international not-for-profit organization that promotes Willa Cather’s legacy through educational programing, preservation and the arts.  Under Levy’s leadership, the Foundation has raised nearly $4 million toward the completion of the National Willa Cather Center. Previously, Levy was Chief of the Consumer Protection/Antitrust Division for the Nebraska Attorney General. During her tenure, the division raised its annual revenue from $400,000 to over $1.2 million and increased consumer complaint resolutions from 3,000 to 5,600. Levy also oversaw the governance of non-profit organizations and worked with a coalition to raise awareness of governance issues among Nebraska’s non-profits. Levy received both her Juris Doctor and Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Arlette Klaric, is an independent curator based in Kansas City, MO. Most recently she served as director of exhibitions and education at the Amarillo Museum of Art in Texas. Her previous positions include curator of art exhibitions for ExhibitsUSA, the national touring exhibition program of Mid-America Arts Alliance, a regional nonprofit arts agency in Kansas City, and executive director of The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms in Morris Plains, NJ. She has published and curated exhibitions on topics in modern and contemporary American art and design, her areas of specialization. Klaric has also held a faculty position in design history at Buffalo State College, SUNY and joint faculty-museum appointments at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and Boston University. She is a member of the American Association of Museums and ArtTable and earned a doctorate in the history of American art from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Robert Shaw, is an independent scholar and curator who has been deeply involved with quilts for more than thirty years. Shaw, who is an Associate Fellow of the IQSCM, is the author of The Art Quilt, American Quilts: The Democratic Art, 1780-2007, and many other books on quilts and American folk art. He served as curator at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont from 1981–1994, where he worked with that institution's world-renowned collections of American folk art. Shaw also served as curator for Quilts Inc. in Houston from 1998–2003 and is the former executive director of the non-profit Quilt Alliance. He has curated quilt exhibitions and lectured at major museums and expositions in the United States, Europe, and Japan, contributed to numerous books and journals, and served as a consultant to museums, private collectors, artists, and Sotheby's auction house. Shaw received his A.B. from Middlebury College.