Lynne Anderson retired from a long career as a University of Oregon professor of education in 2017. Lynne is the founder and president of the Sampler Consortium, an international membership organization, and director of the Sampler Archive Project. She is also a sampler collector and researcher, exhibition curator, and author.
In the first decades after independence, American girls learned the contours of their country by stitching them. At boarding schools, girls transformed printed maps into vivid embroidered visions of a young and still-forming nation.
