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.

http://mmfa.org/exhibitions/sewn-together-two-centuries-of-alabama-quilts/

California, Redlands

San Bernardino County Museum. Stitches in Time. Pieced quilts and woven coverlets from the collection.

Through January 2017.

http://www.sbcounty.gov/museum/rss/article.asp?client=sbmuseum&id=20160922160425

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.

http://iowaquiltmuseum.org/

From the Western Kentucky University collection

Kentucky, Bowling Green

Elizabeth Richardson Quilt Gallery, Kentucky Museum. Backward & Forward: 20th Century Quilts.

Through March 5, 2017.

http://www.wku.edu/kentuckymuseum/exhibits/exhibits.php

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

http://www.quiltstudy.org/exhibitions/

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 1825. No 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