QUILTS & FABRIC: PAST & PRESENT


Thursday, October 20, 2016

Antique Quilt Exhibits: Fall 2016 Through Winter 2017


Weather will be too cool to put the top down soon. Head out today!

Antique Quilt Exhibits: Through Fall 2016 &Winter 2017

Alabama, Montgomery
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. Sewn Together: Two Centuries of Alabama Quilts.
January 28 through April 16, 2017.

California, Redlands
San Bernardino County Museum. Stitches in Time. Pieced quilts and woven coverlets from the collection.
Through January 2017.
Illinois, Chicago
DuSable Museum of African American History. Unpacking Collections: The Legacy of Cuesta Benberry, An African American Quilt Scholar. 
Through September 28, 2017.
In 2018 the show will be at the Mercer Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
http://www.dusablemuseum.org/

Iowa, Winterset
Iowa Quilt Museum. Stargazing: American Star Quilts. Antique and contemporary pieces.
Through January, 2017.

From the Western Kentucky University collection


Kentucky, Bowling Green
Elizabeth Richardson Quilt Gallery, Kentucky Museum. Backward & Forward: 20th Century Quilts.
Through March 5, 2017.


Minnesota, Minneapolis
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts. Cut from the Same Cloth: American Quilts at Mia.14 American quilts from the collection, dating from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s.
Through March 19, 2017.
I am giving a lecture on February 2, 2017: Thursday. 6:30. “Cut from the Same Cloth: Dry Goods & Quilt Design”
http://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/cut-from-the-same-cloth-american-quilts-at-mia/

Nebraska, Lincoln
International Quilt Study Center & Museum/Quilt House.

Nebraska Quilts. January 10-April 8, 2017
Ladies Ramble Quilt

New Jersey, River Edge
Bergen County Historical Society. Ladies' Ramble. Opens January 29th, 2017
Selections from BCHS quilt collection on exhibit.
http://www.visitnj.org/nj-events/ladies-ramble#sthash.pr7CzQpn.dpuf


Pennsylvania, Harleysville
Mennonite Heritage Center. A Riot of Color: Quilts from the Community. Thirty colorful quilts from the Mennonite communities of Bucks and Montgomery Counties.
Through March 2, 2017.
http://mhep.org/exhibits/



 

Pennsylvania. Westchester
Chester County Historical Society. Quilts: The Next Layer. Over a dozen recently donated quilts
Through January 31, 2017.
http://www.chestercohistorical.org/


U.K. Cheltenham, England
Cheltenham Town Hall. Quilty Pleasures: tours of the Wilson Art Gallery quilt collection.
Three hour-long tours on March 11, 2017
http://www.cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk/event/quilty-pleasures-168155/

U.K. Torquay, England 
The Quilters Guild holds its 38th annual conference 31 March - 2 April 2017.
http://www.quiltersguild.org.uk/about/conference-agm

Virginia, Harrisonburg
Virginia Quilt Museum. Golden Age of Applique. Curated by Debby Cooney.
Opens February 14, 2017
http://www.vaquiltmuseum.org/upcoming-exhibits/


Virginia, Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum. A Century of African-American Quilts features twelve quilts from the collection dating from 1875. Through January, 2018.
https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/do/art-museums/rockefeller-museum/century-of-quilts/
In conjunction with an upcoming exhibit Printed Fashions: Textiles for Clothing and the Home, 1700-1820, a conference is scheduled for March 26 - 28.
http://www.cvent.com/events/printed-fashions-textiles-for-clothing-and-the-home/event-summary-cf13f005b41d415e861abce1869909fa.aspx

Washington DC
DAR Museum. "An Agreeable Tyrant: Fashion after the Revolution" considers how Americans fashioned a new identity through costume.Fifty manikins in twelve period room explore clothing from 1780 to 1825No quilts advertised but what the heck.
Through April 29, 2017. Inside information indicates a symposium is planned for the spring. Stay tuned.
http://www.dar.org/museum/exhibitions/current-exhibition

Washington, Walla Walla
Fort Walla Walla Museum. Sewn Into History: A Century of Quilts. Over 20 quilts from the Museum's collection will be on display, ranging in dates from the mid-19th century through the 1930s. Through January, 2017.
http://www.fwwm.org/quilt-show-2016


4 comments:

  1. w o w !
    &
    thank you!
    what a lovely resource list

    you always post so generously ;-)

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  2. Yea, there are some in my town. Thanks, Barbara.

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  3. Thank you, Barbara. Being in the quilting hinterland, I do appreciate this kind of information. You are generous to supply it regularly.

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