Nancy Halpern has a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and has studied at Radcliffe and the Boston Architectural Center. She has taught quiltmaking for over twenty years, from Warsaw, Poland to Kyoto, Japan. Her prizewinning contemporary quilts have been exhibited nationally and internationally in both solo and group shows, and published in numerous books and magazines. Her "Archipelago" was the first work commissioned by the New England Quilters' Guild for its museum.