History of Quilts in Alberta

with Lucie Heins

Join us at the MAG for a talk with Lucie Heins, Assistant Curator at the Royal Alberta Museum and author of Alberta Quiltmakers and Their Quilts, who will be joining us virtually to discus the history of Quilts in Alberta. We will pull a few quilts from our own collection to look at and discuss. Q & A to follow.

*while this program takes place in-person at the MAG, Lucie will be joining us virtually. 

Online registration in this program has closed, but there are still spaces available to attend! Please give our Front Desk a call at 587.797.4040 to register in this program, or, feel free to drop-in to join us.

About Lucie Heins

Lucie is Assistant Curator in the Daily Life & Leisure program at the Royal Alberta Museum. She has a BSc and an MA in Human Ecology, majoring in clothing and textiles. Lucie has also worked on projects at the Textile Museum in Washington DC, and has attended to the textile collection under the care of the Department of Holy Places at the Baha’i World Centre in Haifa, Israel.

Lucie’s research, the Alberta Quilt Project, has taken her all over Alberta, an opportunity to discover this wonderful province she has called home these past 20+ years. Lucie considers herself fortunate to have been able to conduct research on the history of Alberta quiltmakers and their quilts as part of her work.

The Victorian “Crazy” quilt, made from luscious velvets and silks embellished with decorative embroidery stitches, is Lucie’s favourite style of quilting. It combines both her love of quilting and textiles as well as fine embroidery. Lucie lives on an acreage west of Edmonton, with her husband, Tim. They have four children and six grandchildren. Lucie loves to cook and make preserves all year long. When not working at the museum, Lucie attends to her acre-sized vegetable garden in the summer and stitches needlework projects in the winter.