Antique Quilt Exhibits: Summer & Fall 2016

Get out to see some antique quilt shows and attend a seminar this summer and fall.

Tempe History Museum. Looking Back: Quilts of Arizona’s Territorial Period 1863 to 1912.  Community Room Gallery through October 2.

Colorado, Golden

Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. Rocky Mountain Road: New York Beauty quilts from the collection of Bill Volckening.

July 28 through October 25, 2016.

https://rmqm.org

Georgia, Savannah

Telfair Academy. Historic Cottons to Modern Polyesters: Quilts from Telfair’s Collection. Through November 6, 2016

http://www.telfair.org/quilts/

Indiana Wreath

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Indiana, Indianapolis
Indianapolis Museum of Art. A Joy Forever: Marie Webster Quilts.
Through January 8, 2017.
http://www.imamuseum.org/exhibition/joy-forever-marie-webster-quilts

Indiana, Marion

Quilters Hall of Fame. Ruby Short McKim.
October 6 - December 3, 2016.

http://quilterhalloffame.com/Service/Exhibits

Iowa, LaPorte
FFA & Ag Museum on Main Street. A small show of antique quilts from a local collection.
Through November.
http://4andfifteen.blogspot.com/2016/04/ffa-ag-historical-museum-quilt-display.html

Iowa, Winterset
The new Iowa Quilt Museum's opening exhibit Three Centuries of Red + White Quilts will be up through October, 2016.
http://iowaquiltmuseum.org/

Fundraising Quilt dated 1899, Newton, Kansas

Kansas, Newton
Harvey County Historical Society. Purposeful Stitches: Community Quilts. Fundraising and signature/memorial quilts.
Through December 2, 2017.
http://hchm.org/exhibits/

Massachusetts,  Lowell

New England Quilt Museum. America's Applique Quilts: The Christ Collection. October 20 - December 31, 2016.

http://www.nequiltmuseum.org/

Massachusetts, Pittsfield

Hancock Shaker Village. Highlights from Fitzpatrick Quilt Collection. Personal quilt collection of the proprietor of the Red Lion Inn and Country Curtains. Through October 30, 2016.

 http://hancockshakervillage.org/event/living-designs-shared-values-highlights-fitzpatrick-quilt-collection/

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.
http://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/cut-from-the-same-cloth-american-quilts-at-mia/

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

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Inside the Wrapper: The True Tales of the Mountain Mist Quilt Patterns, curated by Linda Pumphrey.
Through October 23, 2016
http://www.quiltstudy.org/exhibitions/

New Hampshire. Peterborough.
Monadnock Center for History and Culture. Pieced and Patterned: Connie Bastille’s Quilt Collection (22 quilts) plus Schoolgirl Samplers. 

Through January 21, 2017
https://monadnockcenter.org/pieced-patterned-connie-bastilles-quilt-collection-schoolgirl-samplers/

New York, Canton
TAUNY (Traditional Arts in Upstate New York).  

Warmth, Remembrance, and Art: 200 Years of Quilts and Comforters in New York's North Country opens April 2, 2016. Sixty quilts documented by the Northern New York Quilt Project. Through October, 2016.

http://tauny.org/pages/194/22/quilt-exhibit-wra

Pennsylvania. Westchester

Chester County Historical Society. Quilts: The Next Layer. Over a dozen recently donated quilts

Through January 31, 2017.

http://www.chestercohistorical.org/

Texas, LaGrange

Texas Quilt Museum. New York Beauties: Volckening Collection.
Through December 18, 2016.
http://www.texasquiltmuseum.org/

Virginia, Harrisonburg

Presidential Connections: Quilts, Virginians and the Whig Party. Guest Curator, Wayne Harrison.

Quilts plus items demonstrating connections between Presidents with Virginia family connections and the Whig Party. See the Gallery Guide here:
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5536745de4b017596a7c3499/t/57507b3027d4bd676c0b92eb/1464892222947/Wayne+Harrison_Gallery+Guide+05.13.2016.pdf

Midnight in the Garden of Quilts: Quilts from the Polly Mello Collection. September 20 - December 17, 2016.

Treasures from the Vault: Crazy Quilts. Curated by Gloria Comstock. September 20 - December 17, 2016.

October 21-22, 2016. Seminar: "Mourning and Meaning Through Cloth". Speakers include Polly Mello & Craig Friend.
http://www.vaquiltmuseum.org

Virginia, Lynchburg
Lynchburg Museum. A Feast for the Eyes: Quilts and Textiles from Central Virginia. Through December 31, 2016.
http://www.lynchburgmuseum.org/features/

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/

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 the end of 2016.

http://www.fwwm.org/quilt-show-2016

Wisconsin, Wausau
Woodson History Center, Pieces of the Past: Quilts Tell a Story. July 23 - till ?
http://www.wausauchamber.com/news/details/pieces-of-the-past-to-open-06-28-2016

Detail of Mary Jane Hannford's quilt

Australia, Melbourne

National Gallery of Victoria: Making the Australian Quilt: 1800–1950, Curators Annette Gero and Katie Somerville.

July 22-November 6, 2016.

http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/making-the-australian-quilt-1800-1950/