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- Sandra Sider (born 1949, in Alabama) is an American quilt artist, author, and curator. She holds a PhD in comparative literature from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, specializing in Renaissance studies. She also holds an M.A. in art history from the New York University Institute of Fine Arts. Sider has been curator for the Texas Quilt Museum since 2012 and editor in chief of Art Quilt Quarterly as of 2017. She has taught art history at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, in New York City, and at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Adelphi University, and the University of Colorado online. She now teaches History of Textiles for the MFA Textiles program at Parsons School of Design. Her publications include several books and numerous articles pertaining to Renaissance history, visual culture, and contemporary quilt art, including Bibliography of Emblematic Manuscripts (with Barbara Obrist) published by McGill-Queen's University Press; Maps, Charts, Globes: Five Centuries of Exploration, published by The Hispanic Society of America, where she was Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books from 1985 until 1994; Handbook to Life in Renaissance Europe, published by Facts on File; Pioneering Quilt Artists, 1960–1980: A New Direction in American Art; her monograph series The Studio Quilt published via Amazon from 2010 to 2013; and, 1000 Quilt Inspirations, published by Quarry. Sider has also published translations of two Spanish poets: Journeys of a Mystic Soul in Poetry and Prose: Cecilia del Nacimiento: (ACMRS Press, 2012); and Selected Sonnets of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz(Peregrina Publishers, 1991). Her most recent book is Quarantine Quilts: Creativity in the Midst of Chaos (Schiffer 2021). (en)
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