Summer Quilt Shows 2012: Antique Quilts

Get Uncle Wiggily to check the air in the tires because it's time for a road trip. Here's a list of summer quilt exhibits in the U.S.

California, Folsom

Then and Now. Folsom History Museum. Through September 2nd.
The 32nd annual antique quilt show and vintage clothing exhibit will showcase quilts in antique to traditional patterns and their contemporary interpretations.  The accompanying clothing display will be drawn from the museum's collection of men's styles
http://www.folsomhistorymuseum.org/ 

Illinois State Museum

Illinois,  Chicago

Civil War Era Quilts from the Illinois State Museum, The Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery,
June 18-September 14, 2012
Curator Angela Goebel-Bain Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts has selected 18 quilts from the museum's extensive collection, including an album quilt by Springfield neighbors of the Lincoln family.
100 West Randolph, Downtown, Chicago. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM, closed state holidays. The Gallery is free and wheelchair-accessible.
Click here: http://www.museum.state.il.us/pressroom/index.html?NPR=1127

Iowa, Waterloo

Covered By Glory: Civil War Commemorative Quilts. The Grout Museum.
Through September 1
Show featuring antique and new quilts.
http://www.groutmuseumdistrict.org/calendar.cfm

National Quilt Museum

Kentucky, Paducah

The Exquisite Stitch: 200 Years of Hand Quilting. National Quilt Museum.
June 15 to September 11
http://www.quiltmuseum.org/current-exhibits.html

Massachusetts, Deerfield

Celebrating the Fiber Arts: The Helen Geier Flynt Textile Gallery, Historic Deerfield.
Through December 30, 2012
A new permanent textile gallery with this year's exhibit: 10 early quilts and coverlets.
http://www.historic-deerfield.org/events/celebrating-fiber-arts-2012-regular-season 

Massachusetts, Lowell

Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil War. American Textile History Museum,

June 30, 2012 – November 25, 2012

Curated by Madelyn Shaw and Lynne Bassett. Catalog will be available.
See the ATHM website here:http://www.athm.org/exhibitions/current_exhibitions

The New England Quilt Museum's Lowell Quilt Festival is August 9-11, 2012.
http://nequiltmuseum.org/lowell-quilt-festival.html

IQSC What's In A Name

Nebraska, Lincoln
International Quilt Study Center and Quilt Museum:

Jean Ray Laury: Getting It All Together. Through September 2, 2012.

What's In A Name? Inscribed Quilts. Through December 3

Quilts of the Homesteading Era

World War II Quilts from the Sue Reich Collection  Through February 10, 2013

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

The annual American Quilt Study Group will be hosted by the International Quilt Study Center and Museum, October 3-7, 2012. Click here:

http://www.americanquiltstudygroup.org/seminar.asp 

 Nebraska History Museum: 
“Quilting for a Cause: Nebraska’s Fundraising Quilts” features 15 quilts that were used in fundraising efforts from the Civil War to present day. Through October 29, 2012.
http://blog.nebraskahistory.org/?p=7096
(update July 27)

New York, Saratoga
The Threads of Time. Brookside Museum. Through January, 2013.

Explores the history of quilting in the county in over 20 quilts.
http://www.brooksidemuseum.org/2012/03/behind-the-seams/ 

Ohio, Kent

On the Home Front: Civil War Fashions and Domestic Life. Kent State University Museum

Through August 26, 2012, featuring Elizabeth Keckley's famous silk quilt.
http://www.kent.edu/museum/visit/index.cfm
http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2012/02/keckley-quilt-on-display.html

Packwood House, Previous Show

Pennsylvania, Lewisburg
Pennsylvania Quilts II. Patterns & Variations. Packwood House Museum.
June 12-October 13.
This year's annual event shows 80 quilts on the theme of pattern:  Stars, squares, rectangles, triangles, curves, flowers, and one-patch patterns.
Click here:
http://www.packwoodhousemuseum.com/exhibits.php
See some shots from last year's show on Ann Hermes's blog:
http://notesfromthequiltlab.blogspot.com/2011/07/packwood-museum-visit.html

Terasaki Collection

Pennsylvania, State College

American Quilts from the Terasaki Collection. Palmer Museum of Art.
June 12–August 26, 2012
21 quilts from collection of Etsuko Terasaki, curated by Cathy Rosa Klimaszewski. A traveling exhibit organized by the the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
Click here:
http://www.palmermuseum.psu.edu/exhibitions.html

Charleston Museum

South Carolina, Charleston

Geometric Quilts. The Charleston Museum.
Through December 9, 2012.
This year's exhibit features pieced quilts displaying a myriad of designs created from just a few distinct shapes.
http://www.charlestonmuseum.org/exhibits-geometric-quilts

Quilts by Charles Pratt (center) and Albert Small (right)

Vermont, Shelburne

Man-Made Quilts: Civil War to the Present. Shelburne Museum.
Through October 28, 2012
Quilts by men from the Museum's collection and others.  An illustrated catalogue with an essay by quilter and scholar Joe Cunningham will accompany the exhibition
http://shelburnemuseum.org/exhibitions/man-made-quilts-civil-war-to-the-present/
(Added 7/11/2012)

Colonial Williamsburg

Virginia, Williamsburg

Quilts in the Baltimore Manner. Colonial Williamsburg. Foster and Muriel McCarl Gallery.
June 9- through May 11, 2014.
One dozen quilts reflecting the strong textile industry and innovative quiltmaking styles of America’s largest seaport of the period 1845 to 1855. Curated by Linda Baumgarten and Kim Ivey.
http://www.history.org/history/museums/abby_art_current.cfm

Influences on American Quilts: Baltimore to Bengal.  A symposium exploring influences through a series of formal lectures, juried papers, and tours. November 8-10, 2012.
http://www.history.org/history/institute/institute_about.cfm

Flag by Sarah Mary Taylor, 1970s

Washington, Bellevue
Bellevue Arts Museum. Bold Expressions: African American Quilts from the Collection of Corrine Riley.
June 14 - October 7, 2012
50 quilts made throughout the American South between 1910 and the 1970s
http://www.bellevuearts.org/exhibitions/current/bold_expressions/index.html
(added 7/7/2012)

Hannah Haynes Headlee's Iris Garden

 will be at the Whatcom Museum

Washington, Bellingham
Washington, Whatcom Museum. American Quilts: The Democratic Art
August 4-October 28, 2012. Curators Robert Shaw and Julie Silber have organized a show based on Shaw's book of the same name.

http://www.whatcommuseum.org/galleries/upcoming/356-american-quilts-the-democratic-art-1780-2007-
(Added 7/16/12)

La Conner Museum

Mariner’s Compass made by Roxy Terrill and Amanda Cheney

 for Amanda’s grandson, Edward Nobles in 1865.

Washington, La Conner

Two-Color Quilts from the permanent collection. La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum.
June 27 - August 19, 2012
http://www.laconnerquilts.com/exhibits/current-exhibits/two-color-quilts