Summer Quilt Shows

MANHATTAN, KANSAS

Flag quilt appliqued about 1850,

 in Pieces of Time

At Kansas State University's Marianna Kistler Beach Museum

Plan your summer travel itinerary with a quilt show excursion around the Great Plains of the U.S.A.

Fly into Kansas City. Bring a GPS; it's a big country.

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI

Eagle quilt from Pennsylvania, about 1900

Rent a car. Take in the exhibit at the The National Archives Museum there.  Partisan Pieces: Quilts of Political and Patriotic Persuasion, curated by Kathy Moore, is a traveling exhibit from the International Quilt Study Center & Museum. It will be up till August 21. Click here for information: http://www.archives.gov/central-plains/kansas-city/

LAWRENCE, KANSAS

Detail of a late-19th-century Japanese Fan quilt from

Quilting Time and Space

Drive west on I-70 to Lawrence, Kansas, where the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas has a show of their quilts called Quilting Time and Space through August 29th. Curated by University student interns, the exhibit "will explore cross-cultural connections through the art of quilting," using antique and contemporary quilts to represent "confluences of tradition and place." Click here for information: http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/exhibitions/quilting-time-space.shtml

LAWRENCE, KANSAS

Odd Aviary at the Community Mercantile

Have a latte and a chocolate chip scone at the Community Mercantile grocery store at 9th and Iowa where Linda Frost has a small show of her work in the dining room. Odd Aviary will be up through the end of July.

MANHATTAN, KANSAS

Continue west on I-70 to Manhattan, Kansas. Kansas State University has the first show of their quilts up at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum on campus. Pieces of Time: Quilts from K-State's Historic Costume and Textile Museum will be on display through September 12th.
The quilt above, a 19th-century patriotic quilt, will be in the exhibit. Click here for information:
http://www.humec.k-state.edu/news/2010/05/28/vintage-flag-quilt-to-headline-the-pieces-of-time-exhibition-at-k-states-beach-museum-of-art/

LINCOLN, NEBRASKA

Detail of a signature quilt from

Quilts Under the Microscope

Turn North on Highway 77 and drive to Lincoln, Nebraska to visit the quilt museum at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. The two shows up now are:
Quilts Under the Microscope through August 1st and South Asian Seams: Quilts from India, Pakistan, & Bangladesh through November 7th.  Childhood Treasures: Doll Quilts from the Ghormley Collection is scheduled to open August 6th.

Click here for information: http://www.quiltstudy.org/index.html?PHPSESSID=bf577b00549c9bc75d5e8453048f8943

MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN

Early 19th-century Broderie Perse quilt with John Hewson prints from

Quilts in a Material World

Head out on I-80 east towards Milwaukee, Wisconsin (not part of the Great Plains---Milwaukee is on the Great Lakes and there is a great show of antique quilts there.) The Milwaukee Art Museum is the last stop on the tour of the Winterthur Museum's Quilts in a Material World, curated by Linda Eaton. The show features rare textiles from the late 1700s and early 1800s through September 6, 2010. Click here for information: http://www.mam.org/american_quilts/

Early 19th century quilt by Rebecca Scattergood Savery

From Quilts in a Material World

Read more about the Milwaukee/Winterthur exhibit in my blog post for April 21:

http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2010/04/winterthur-quilts-in-milwaukee.html

And read more about exhibits featuring antique quilts in Europe and the U.S. on my web site at the Exhibits and Events page by clicking here:

http://www.barbarabrackman.com/faqs1.aspx

Remember to dress for heat; it's positively tropical here in the summer.