Aimée Littlewood Allen is the author and creative behind BLOCK, an art blog about quilts and quilt culture at www.quiltblock.studio. She holds a B.F.A in Textiles from Virginia Commonwealth University, a M.A. in Art and Visual Culture Studies from the University of Arizona, and is former Curator of Education of The National Quilt Museum, in Paducah, Kentucky. She resides in Las Vegas, Nevada, and can be reached at patchworkandpixels@protonmail.com.