The Virginia Quilt Museum will have a virtual celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the museum in October 2021. A significant portion of the work will be to create oral histories of quilters and their work. We will partner with Quilt Alliance to generate interviews for submission to the Quilters’ S.O.S. – Save Our Stories (QSOS) project https://quiltalliance.org/projects/qsos/. 
QSOS is the largest oral history collection about quiltmakers in the world. Original audio recordings and photographs are archived in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The interviews will use the established QSOS resources for conducting interviews and documenting each subject. The museum will provide the subjects for the interviews, with a goal of interviews being admitted to the archive as a result of this work. Here’s one example of a QSOS interview conducted remotely and how it looks on the new website: http://qsos.quiltalliance.org/items/show/2567 as an example.
QSOS is the largest oral history collection about quiltmakers in the world. Original audio recordings and photographs are archived in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The interviews will use the established QSOS resources for conducting interviews and documenting each subject. The museum will provide the subjects for the interviews, with a goal of interviews being admitted to the archive as a result of this work. Here’s one example of a QSOS interview conducted remotely and how it looks on the new website: http://qsos.quiltalliance.org/items/show/2567 as an example.Housed in the historic Warren-Sipe House in downtown Harrisonburg, the Virginia Quilt Museum has over three hundred quilts in their permanent collection. Founded in 1995, it is the Official Quilt museum of the Commonwealth of Virginia, charged with the mission to “Cultivate and Preserve the Quilting Arts in Virginia.”. The Museum welcomes applications for interns interested in pursuing a career in a variety of fields, including History and Public History. The selected interns will experience first-hand a wide range of professional activities that take place in a small but far reaching, state-wide art and history museum.
To apply, contact Susan Farmer, Executive Director, Virginia Quilt Museum, 540-433-3818, email: director@vaquiltmuseum.org.
Virginia Quilt Museum, Virtual Oral History Internship