Teresa Duryea Wong is a writer, quilter, and textiles scholar. She is the author of seven books on quilt history and textiles, including Kawaii Applique Quilts from Japan, coauthored with Naomi Ichikawa, Sewing and Survival: Native American Quilts from 1880-2022, and Japanese Contemporary Quilts and Quilters: The Story of an American Import. She is a member of the International Quilt Museum advisory board and a contributing writer for Quiltfolk magazine.
Carolyn Ducey recently retired as the Ardis B. James Curator of Collections at the International Quilt Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and currently oversees special projects. She curated numerous exhibitions and contributed to others, including An Evolving Vision: The James Collection, 1997-2022 and American Quilts in the Industrial Age: 1760-1870.
Kyra E. Hicks is the author of Black Threads: An African American Quilting Sourcebook, This I Accomplish: Harriet Powers Bible Quilt and Other Pieces, and other books.
Sharbreon Plummer is an award-winning public scholar, artist, and curator from southeast Louisiana. She is the founder of AYA Thought Studio and has spent the past fifteen years shaping and facilitating transformative programs and initiatives that center liberation and justice through arts and culture. She specializes in Black art history and material culture, Southern folkways, and craft studies, with an emphasis on textiles.
Yvonne Wells is a contemporary artist, quilter, and educator from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She is a recipient of the Governors Arts Award from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Her art is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the High Museum of Art, the International Quilt Museum, and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, among others.