Antique Quilt Exhibits: Summer Through Fall 2017

 Antique Quilt Exhibits: Summer Through Fall 2017

From Flying Down to Rio

Buy yourself a seat inside the plane and take a trip to

 see these shows and conferences.

California, Pasadena

Huntington Library. Becoming America: Highlights from the Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection. The Fieldings' new wing exhibits objects from their folk-arts collection including quilts. Their focus: American ingenuity in art for utilitarian purposes by craftspeople in 18th & 19th century rural New England. Through October, 2019.

http://huntington.org/Webassets/Templates/exhibitionslist.aspx?exhibition=current

California, San Diego

Mingei Museum of Folk Art. Kantha, 40 Indian pieces made from recycled sari decoratively stitched. October 28 -March 25, 2018.
https://mingei.org/exhibitions/

Indiana, Indianapolis
Indianapolis Museum of Art. Crazy Quilts: Stitching Memories. Through January 7, 2018
http://www.imamuseum.org/exhibition/crazy-quilts-stitching-memories

Indiana State Museum. Lincoln in Quilts: Log Cabins, Flags and Roses. Featuring a quilt made by his cousin in 1827; those directly associated with Lincoln through the use of campaign ribbons, silks from his wife Mary Todd’s dresses or those of her friends; Civil War quilts; and memorial quilts as well as a range of campaign and other textiles.  Nov. 4, 2017 through Feb. 19, 2018.

https://www.indianamuseum.org/exhibitions

Kentucky, Bowling Green
Elizabeth Richardson Quilt Gallery at Western Kentucky University. Backward & Forward: 20th Century Quilts. More than 30 quilts and wall hangings illustrate how Kentucky quiltmakers looked to both the past and to the future for inspiration. Through December 15, 2017.

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

Nebraska, Lincoln

International Quilt Study Center & Museum/Quilt House.

Block by Block: American Quilts in the Industrial Age. Curator: Janice Frisch. Through November 30, 2017.

Red & White Quilts from the IQSCM Education Collection. Through November 22, 2017

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

New Jersey. Oak Ridge

Jefferson Township Museum open house Sunday, November 5, 2017, from 1 to 4 pm, features the Museum’s display of vintage and antique quilts.

http://www.jthistoricalsociety.org/

New York City

American Folk Art Museum.  War and Pieced: The Annette Gero Collection of Quilts from Military Fabrics. Through January 7, 2018. 29 quilts made by men using British uniform wools.

http://folkartmuseum.org/exhibitions/

  

Ohio, Cincinnati

Taft Museum of Art. Elegant Geometry: British & American Mosaic Patchwork Quilts. Traveling Exhibit from the International Quilt Study Center & Museum. Through January 21, 2018.

http://www.taftmuseum.org/

Ohio, Columbus

Columbus Museum of Art. Botanical Wonders: Flower Figure Quilts 1850-1950 From The Donna And Rodney Wasserstrom Collection. Showcasing a recent donation. Through March 11, 2018.

https://www.columbusmuseum.org/art/botanical-wonders/

Tennessee, Knoxville
East Tennessee Historical Society. Stories in Stitches: Quilts from the ETHS Collection. Curators Jan Wass and Merikay Waldvogel. Through January 2, 2018.

http://www.easttnhistory.org/storiesinstitches

Virginia, Harrisonburg

Virginia Quilt Museum. Treasures from the Vault:  Quilts from the VQM Collection, Elegant Stitches. Curated by Gloria Comstock. Focus on quilting from 18th & 19th-century Virginians. Through December 16, 2017.

http://www.vaquiltmuseum.org

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/

Printed Fashions: Textiles for Clothing and the Home, 1700-1820 includes a few quilts (one with a John Hewson panel) and a lot of early fabrics.