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Author
Curious Works Press
Programs presented for LMSG are:
Kathy Staples has been a guest lecturer for the Lake Michigan Sampler Guild on multiple occasions. She is a wonderful speaker and extremely knowledgeable as you will see from her "curriculum vita" below. Formal Education - 1990: M.A., University of Texas: anthropology
- 1972: B.A. cum laude, Lawrence University: religion
- 2002: Graduate, MESDA Summer Institute
Professional Experience - 1992-present: owner, Curious Works Press.
- 1999-present: advisory board, Sampler and Antique Needlework Quarterly
- 2001: co-curator, "'Some honest worke in hand "English Seventeenth-Century Samplers," Finkel and Daughter Antique Textiles and Furniture, Philadelphia.
- 2000: curator, "Samplers in the European Tradition," Finkel and Daughter Antique Textiles and Furniture, Philadelphia.
- 1998: host of weekly radio programs on needlework, Providence and Phoenix.
- 1998-99: curator, "British Embroidery: Curious Works from the Seventeenth Century," DeWitt Wallace Gallery, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Va.
- 1997: co-curator, "Looping & Knitting, A History," The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.
- 1994-1995: assistant conservator, The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.
- 1994: coordinator, "By Their Works You Shall Know Them: Native American Textiles from Oklahoma," The Textile Museum. Washington, D.C.
- 1994: curator, "A Stitch through Time: The Journey of an Islamic Embroidery Technique to Europe and the New World," The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.
- 1993: reviewer for National Geographic Society Research and Exploration.
- 1993: curator, "Mexican Samplers: Patterns of Continuity and Change," The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.
- 1990: curator, "Lace: Labor of Survival to Labor of Love," Texas Memorial Museum, Austin, Tex.
- 1975-1982: Director of Research and Design, Elsa Williams, Inc., West Townsend, Mass.
Lecture Experience - 1973-present: nationally recognized lecturer, textile history and women's history
- 2000: lecturer, Textile Society of America 7th Biennial Symposium, "Looking at Samplers," Santa Fe.
- 1999: lecturer, Williamsburg, Institute Symposium, "British Textile Arts, 1600-1700: 'Farre Fetchd and Deerely Bought,"' Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
- 1998: lecturer, Williamsburg Institute Symposium "Within the Female Compass," Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
- 1996: guest lecturer, graduate textiles seminar, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- 1995: workshop, "Basic Collections and Storage Management for Tribal Museums," Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa.
- 1991: lecturer, seminar on women's history, Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Del.
- 1989: presenter, Annual Textile Conference., Baltimore.
Authorship Experience - 2000-present: articles for Sampler and Antique Needlework Quarterly
- 1995-present: articles for Piecework Magazine
- 1994-present: articles for museum newsletters; exhibit catalogs for museums
- 1989-present: articles for professional
journals
Membership in Professional Organizations - Textile Society of America
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