Historian, Curator, Author, Lecturer, Artist, Mentor, Founder, and Facilitator — the remarkable and tireless Dr.  Carolyn Mazloomi has left her mark on many lives. Trained as an aerospace   engineer, Carolyn Mazloomi turned her sites and tireless efforts in the 1980s to bring the many unrecognized contributions of African American quilt artists to the attention of the American people as well as the international art communities. From the founding  of the African-American Quilt Guild of  Los Angles in 1981 to the  1985 founding of the Women of Color Quilters Network  (WCQN),  Mazloomi has been at the forefront of educating the public about the diversity of interpretation, styles and techniques among African  American  quilters as well as educating a younger generation of  African Americans about  their own history through the quilts the  WCQN members create. Dr. Mazloomi’s quilts can be found in private collections around the world as well in distinguished museum collections in the United States. To date Dr. Mazloomi has published nine books highlighting African American-made quilts. Her   artistic work, as well as her defense of solid research, has  disrupted  long-standing myths about African American quilts, myths  much debated among  quilt historians and quilters alike, and thus  moved the conversation about  African American quilt history forward  to more a solid academic footing. Mazloomi has been involved in the economic development of women through the arts for over twenty years. Her organization, WCQN, has been recognized by the International Labor Department in Geneva and the United Nations for its developmental programs to help advance women. Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi has been the recipient of many state and national honors, among them the 2003 Ohio Heritage Fellowship Award, the first such award for any Ohio citizen. In 2014 she was named a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest award given in the United States for traditional arts. In 2014 she was awarded the Distinguished Scholar & Celebrated Artist Lifetime Achievement Award by Faith Ringgold’s Anyone Can Fly Foundation. Dr. Mazloomi is the 2016 inductee to the Quilters Hall of Fame Museum.