Instructor: ALICE FAULKNER BURCH

ALICE FAULKNER BURCH

Alice Faulkner Burch was born and raised in a beach town in California to Cleo & Elwanda Faulkner. She has always loved learning in both the class setting and on her own. Wanting clothes for her dolls and her parents not having the money to purchase them and her mother not having the extra time to make them, she sat at her mother's feet to learn to sew by hand. That singular skill broadened as she aged. She altered her own clothes, made the curtains for her home, and taught herself to quilt. Her biggest brag about her quilts is "No machine ever touches my quilts. They are 100% by hand." Even as a child, she loved the old things and treated them gently. That love broadened into a love for history.

Once retired in 2017 and tired of hearing people say "Utah has no Black history," she set out to prove them wrong and began researching Utah's Black history. She now has a file several hundred folders thick, mostly people. She enjoys learning from those who went before and sharing what she has learned about living better and the wisdom she has acquired from them. She speaks often, has written numerous articles, and has had one book published, which received three awards. Volunteering with Sema Hadithi Foundation to research Utah Black history and collect historical items, she says she works more-than-full-time now but has none of the stress when she worked full-time.

ALICE FAULKNER BURCH is currently teaching:

Class Title	Semester	Date(s)	Program
The Art and History of Sewing By Hand	Spring	3/07/26 - 3/28/26	Lifelong Learning

ALICE FAULKNER BURCH has previously taught:

• How We Got Here: The Story of Black People's Arrival in Utah