Antique Quilt Exhibits: Fall 2012

Get the family together and plan a trip to a museum exhibit of antique quilts. Here's a list by state for  fall 2012 through the end of the year. (The dogmobile photo from 1912 is from the Library of Congress.)

California, Sacramento.

Piecing the Past Together. Through December 20.
California State University Libraries.
http://library.csus.edu/

 

 

California, San Jose

Collecting Treasures: Celebrating 35 Years. San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles.
November 13 – February 3, 2013
Includes early and historic quilts in the collection, along with recent acquisitions of contemporary fiber art, costume, and ethnic textiles.
http://www.sjquiltmuseum.org/exhibitions

From the American Folk Art Museum

Iowa, Davenport

Quilts: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum. Figge Art Museum.

November 3, 2012-February 3, 2013. The Museum has loaned 27 quilts across a range of dates and styles.

http://figgeart.org/Figge-Art-Museum-(1)/September-2012/Quilts--Masterworks-from-the-American-Folk-Art-Mus.aspx 


Kentucky, Paducah
National Quilt Museum.
My Accidental Quilt Collection: From the Alan Luger Collection.
Through January 14, 2013
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

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

Through 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
 

New England Quilt Museum: Great Quilts, Great Stories, Treasures from the Permanent Collection. Through December 29, 2012. Co-Curators: Pamela Weeks & Kate Hanson Plass.

http://nequiltmuseum.org/home.html

 

Nebraska, Lincoln

International Quilt Study Center and Quilt Museum:

What's In a Name? Inscribed Quilts.Through December 3
World War II Quilts from the Sue Reich Collection. Through February 10, 2013.

Indigo Gives America the Blues. Through June 2, 2013

Perfecting the Past: Colonial Revival Quilts. December 7 - September 1, 2013
http://www.quiltstudy.org/exhibitions/  

 
New Jersey, Woodbury
Stitches Through Time: A Legacy of Quilts. Gloucester County Historical Society.

More than 30 quilts dating from the 1830s-1930s. It's unclear when this will come down..

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njgchs/

 

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, Wilmington

Patterns & Prints: Quaker Quilts & Textiles, Quaker Heritage Center of Wilmington College. Through December 14, 2012.  A dozen quilts and coverlets from Clinton County’s Quaker families plus household and clothing textiles, made and collected by Quaker families in Southwest Ohio dating from the 1830s through the 1990s.
http://www2.wilmington.edu/qhc/Exhibits.cfm


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

Texas, LaGrange

Celebrating Great Quilts! Antique Quilts from the International Quilt Festival Collection.
Texas Quilt Museum. Through December 30, 2012.
http://www.texasquiltmuseum.org/txqm2/exhibits.html

 

 

 

Virginia, Ferrum
The Great Western Virginia Cover-Up: Historic Quilts & Bedcovers. Ferrum College's Blue Ridge Institute & Museum.Through spring, 2013. 32 quilts and 20 coverlets from the 1700s to 1950.
www.blueridgeinstitute.org    

Virginia, Williamsburg

Quilts in the Baltimore Manner. Colonial Williamsburg. Foster and Muriel McCarl Gallery.
Through May 11, 2014.
A 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

 

Wisconsin, Cedarburg

A Thread Runs Through It. Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts.
Through January 6, 2013. The Koval Collection of antique quilts with other shows
http://wiquiltmuseum.com/

I'll update this with winter and spring shows in December, 2012.