Our People


	Anne Scott Owner A keen quilter, Anne Scott founded New Zealand Quilter magazine in 1992 and continues to edit this quarterly publication. 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.

	Una Conlon Retail Assistant Una works part time with us, and will begin studying towards a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Massey University in 2018.

	Olivia Baird Retail Assistant Olivia works part time at Minerva while studying towards a Bachelor of Design in Textiles at Massey University.

	Ella Lincoln Retail Assistant Ella works part time with us while studying towards a Bachelor of Design for Stage and Screen at Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School.