Aspire Media Acquires Quilting Arts Television Program
February 12, 2010 · Print This Article
Quilting Arts is a highly rated series on PBS with carriage in more than 450 markets and distribution to 80 million households in the United States. Kathie Stull, president of KS Inc. Productions, will continue with the show as its executive producer. The program is distributed to public television stations through NETA - The National Educational Telecommunications Association.
“I am enthusiastic about the opportunities for Quilting Arts television as it becomes a part of Aspire Media,” says Stull. “The program will be best positioned for sustained growth as part of a multi media company specializing in content for quilt enthusiasts.”
Quilting Arts television celebrates the new look for quilting where art and embellishment meet traditional quilt techniques. Hosted by Patricia (Pokey) Bolton, editor in chief of Quilting Arts magazine, Quilting Arts television offers viewers instructions for the most innovative designs in quilting today.
Each half-hour show welcomes guests who share their expertise with helpful tips, original techniques, and fun projects for quilters and fiber artists of all skill levels. Projects and patterns featured on the show are available for downloading on the show’s website.
The show has corporate underwriting from Bernina of America, Cedar Canyon Textiles, Inc., Havel’s, Inc., eQuilter.com, Rowenta, The Electric Quilt Company, The Warm Company, Sulky of America, J.T. Trading Corp., Coats & Clark, Kaleidoscope Collections, Linda McGehee, Schmetz Needles, JHB, Simplicity Creative Group, Michael Miller Fabrics LLC, Prym Dritz, and Windham Fabrics.
Aspire Media invests in developing and acquiring art and craft media both offline and online.
About Aspire Media, LLC
Aspire Media (www.aspire-media.com)is a multiplatform enthusiast media company and an acquirer and operator of consumer enthusiast media. Aspire was founded by Clay B. Hall, an experienced publishing professional and former owner-operator of enthusiast magazines, with the backing of private equity firms Frontenac Company (www.frontenac.com) and Catalyst Investors (www.catalystinvestors.com). Aspire is actively pursuing acquisitions of enthusiast media companies that impart “how-to,” “where-to,” and “when-to” information to participants involved in crafts, hobbies, and certain other special interests. For more information on Aspire Media, please visit aspire-media.com or call (970) 613-6628.
About KS, Inc. Productions
Over the past 16 years, KS, Inc. Productions has produced 15 different series and more than 1800 episodes for public television specializing in how-to programming. Working in conjunction with Beachwood Studios; KS, Inc. Productions sets a standard for high quality, and is at the forefront in developing programming that attracts and inspires the how-to audience. The how-to line up of KS, Inc. Productions includes America Sews with Sue Hausmann, Scrapbook Memories, Hands On Crafts for Kids, Beads, Baubles & Jewels, Bake Decorate Celebrate!®, Knitting Daily, and Quilting Arts-some of the most widely watched how-to programs on public television.
About Quilting Arts’ host Pokey Bolton
Patricia Chatham Bolton was introduced to embellished quilting and the related needle arts in 1998, and ever since she took her first stitch (a fly) and embroidered her first motif (a spider), she has been entangled in this hobby and doesn’t envision herself free. Art quilting and mixed-media have, quite literally, taken over her life–so much so that she left her doctoral program and full-time teaching job to found Quilting Arts Magazine®, and later with her husband John, Cloth Paper Scissors® magazine. She and John live and work in Stow, Massachusetts.