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Koke quilt The Marianne Koke Folk Arts Collections is a memorial to Marianne Koke, the late wife of Don Koke. Don is a former full-time Humanities instructor at Butler Community College. It encompasses multiple formats: music in both CD and online form, DVDs, books and artwork; and multiple subjects: bluegrass to the blues; quilting to outsider art.

 

"Iron Horse Concert Hall" Quilt was made by members of the El Dorado Crazy Quilters Guild and presented to Marianne Koke Folk Arts Collection in May, 2000.

 

artist Warren Chambers CollectionFolk art presented to the Marianne Koke Folk Art Collection,
L.W. Nixon Library by the artist Warren "Homer" Chambers, September 14, 2005.