NQA dissolved
 

Got an email from NQA they are calling it quits. So sad.😢

What is NQA? I'm assuming National Quilting Association? What were they involved in?

Got the email, too. I went to their show in Columbus a few years ago. It is a shame that they are having to dissolve. There were benefits to guilds that were NQA members such as breaks on insurance when holding a quilt show. I enjoyed their magazine, too.

Another organization dissolves. Yes, they were a great support of quilt guilds.

They sited poor attendance to the shows as one reason.

I know they were different, but perhaps there was too much similarity/conflict/competition with the American Quilters Society which I believe was larger?

Jan in VA

The website NQAquilts.org is still up and promoting shows through 2017.
Wonder what is real.

This is from their FB page - a link to a newsletter explaining it all. So sad. I was a member for years.....
http://www.nqaquilts.org/current/newsletter/

I volunteered at Columbus for many years and joined at the shows. When they announced they where moving to Arkansas due to infighting, I didn't rejoin. There where some with superior attitudes involved. Pity loved it.

The show at AR was very good but the attendance was very low. There was no advertising of the show at all. If I hadn't been a member of the NQA I would not have know it was in AR. I got the impression from vendors that they were very disappointed in the turn out, their booth fees were high and most traveled a long distance. The area guilds didn't know in time to get buses arranged for groups. It was lack of organization and leadership for sure.