Erica Wilson on Nantucket with Anne Hilker

A Garden of Stitches: Erica Wilson on Nantucket Symposium: Nantucket Needlework at the Quaker Meeting House, September 9-10, 2019. A presentation of the Nantucket Historical Association. Erica Wilson’s kits, catalogs, books, and press images often reflected her summer life in Nantucket. She took inspiration from the island and also helped foster a renewed interest in the teaching and execution of handwork. In this talk, Anne Hilker considers the ways in which Erica and Nantucket nurtured each other by looking at her career, embroideries, and stitching legacy. Anne Hilker, a doctoral candidate at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City, is archivist of Erica Wilson’s embroideries and papers and the co-curator of next year’s exhibition on the work of Erica Wilson at the Winterthur Museum.