GRAHAMSVILLE, NY — “Traditional Quilts to Art Quilts: Show and Tell,” will be held on Sunday, October 15 at 2 p.m. at the Time and the Valleys Museum on State Rte. 55.  

Join Katharina Litchman, a quilter for over 25 years, who will showcase her quilts with both traditional and non-traditional quilting designs, and discuss her journey from a beginning quilter to today.  

She works with designs ranging from the Amish-inspired to faun and fauna and architectural and abstract design themes. Some of her art quilts are heavily free-motion quilted—painted with thread and embellished with beads and Swarovski crystals.  

The cost of the program is free for members and $5 for non-members; it includes museum admission.  For more information about this program, call Donna Steffens at 845/ 985-7700 or email info@timeandthevalleysmuseum.org.

 About Katharina Litchman

“I have a passion for all things hand-made. I worked in clay, studied photography and darkroom techniques, attended design classes at Parsons School of Design in New York City, and learnt the art of Ikebana (Japanese flower arrangements). But most of all, I enjoy working in fiber with its tactile quality. Many of my fabrics are hand-dyed or painted.”

Her work has been featured in magazines such as Quilting Arts and Love of Quilting magazines, on the Newsday blog, and in the Catskill Mountain Region Guide magazine. Her teaching engagements include the Sullivan County Community College, local quilting guilds, Frost Valley YMCA, and Liberty High School.

She is a member of Studio Art Quilt Associates.

She was inducted into the Arkville-based Catskill Mountain Quilters Hall of Fame as the first art quilter, she said. Her piece “Drought” was recently accepted into the permanent collection of the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY.

About the Time and the Valleys Museum:  The museum connects water people and the Catskills. It is currently only open during programs.  Located at 332 Main St. (State Route 55 in Grahamsville, Sullivan County, admission for adults costs $5, children under 16 $2, and children under six are free. 

Current museum exhibitions are: 

• Water and the Valleys, an exhibit on the history of the Rondout and Neversink watershed area from early geological times to the 20th century.  
• Tunnels, Toil and Trouble: New York City’s Quest for Water and the Rondout-Neversink Story, an interactive exhibit on the New York City water supply system and the towns that were removed to build the system, which includes computer interactives, games, puzzles, videos and building a dam and tunnel. 
• 1930s Lost Catskill Farm, a farmhouse, outhouse, barn, electric plant, milk house and working waterwheel help visitors experience life in the 1930s through displays, videos, games and hands-on activities, including the new exhibition As the Wheel Turns:  Water Powered Industries in the Catskills.
• Bittersweet Memories:  Lost Towns of the Catskill Watersheds a collaborative augmented reality art exhibition of the buildings and homes taken for New York City’s water system.  

The Time and the Valleys Museum is a Blue Star Museum, a collaboration between the National Endowment of the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense and over 1,500 museums across America to provide free admission to active duty military members (with ID) and up to five family members.  This free admission for members of the military and their families runs from Memorial Day to Labor Day.  

For more information, call 845/985-7700, email info@timeandthevalleysmuseum.org or visit www.timeandthevalleysmuseum.org. To schedule a group tour for children or adults, call 845/985-7700.