Our People


	Anne Scott Owner A keen quilter, Anne Scott founded New Zealand Quilter magazine in 1992 and edited this quarterly publication until it ceased in 2017. Since 1998, Anne has curated touring exhibitions of New Zealand quilts for exhibition in Canada, Australia, the US, Britain and France. With a longstanding interest in quilt history, she served on the Advisory Board of the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Lincoln, Nebraska from 2000-2003. For some years she travelled to Laos, teaching quilting and sewing skills to disadvantaged women as part of an income generation project.

	MaryAnn Georgiou Shop Manager MaryAnn is an award-winning quilter, who also enjoys embroidery and most things creative. She is a whiz at designing complex pictorial quilts on the computer and her quilt The Labours of Herakles won a Merit Award and second place in Viewers’ Choice at Symposium 2011.

	Olivia Baird Retail Assistant Olivia works part time at Minerva and recently completed her Bachelor of Design in Textiles at Massey University.

	Mikey Gutcheon Retail Assistant Mikey works part time at Minerva while completing his Physio Therapy degree. Before becoming a fulltime student, he danced with Footnote New Zealand Dance.