Antique Quilt Exhibits: Summer & Fall 2019

Most shows won't let you touch.

Here's a list of shows worth visiting and meetings worth attending through fall 2019.

Alabama, Tuscumbia
Belle Mont Mansion,  The annual quilt show at this museum: Antique Quilts from the Tennessee River Valley. October 2 - 31, 2019

Arkansas, Little Rock
Old State House Museum. A Piece of My Soul: Quilts by Black Arkansans. Years ago the late Cuesta Benberry curated this exhibit of quilts from the collection, now rehung, up through Fall, 2019.
http://www.oldstatehouse.com/rotating-exhibits/a-piece-of-my-soul

Historic Arkansas Museum. Stitched Together: A Treasury of Arkansas Quilts (from the collection)

Through October 31, 2019

https://historicarkansas.worldsecuresystems.com/Exhibits/current-exhibits

California, San Jose

San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. Gems From Our Past. Quilts from the Collection.

August 28 - October 13, 2019.

https://www.sjquiltmuseum.org/

Colorado, Golden

Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. In The British Style: English Paper Pieced Quilts and Antique Paper Pieced Quilts from the RMQM Collection. October 21 - January 18, 2020
Exhibit Opening Reception: Friday, October 26th, 6:00pm

http://rmqm.org

Connecticut, Hartford

Connecticut Historical Society, Connecticut Quilts, curated by Lynn Z. Bassett.

Opening October 11, 2019

https://chs.org/exhibition/coming-soon-connecticut-quilts/

Florida, Sarasota
Ringling Museum of Art, The Fabric of India, 140 pieces from London’s Victoria & Albert Museum.
July 7 - October 13, 2019
http://www.ringling.org/events/fabric-india

Georgia, Atlanta

September 27 -29, 2019. Atlanta Quilt Study Symposium. 

https://quiltdistrict.com/atlanta-quilt-study-group/

Georgia, Carrollton

Southeastern Quilt and Textile Museum. Antique Quilts from the Collection of Marti Michell

October 3 -January 25, 2020

https://www.southeasternquiltandtextilemuseum.org/

Iowa, Winterset
Iowa Quilt Museum, Stitched Through Time: A History of Quilting, curated by Judy Schwender.
Through September 29th, 2019
http://iowaquiltmuseum.org/current-exhibit/

Illinois, Burr Ridge

Robert Vial House. Quilts from the Depression

Thursdays & 1st  Sunday of each month through October.

http://www.flaggcreekheritagesociety.com/index.html

Maryland, Baltimore
Maryland Historical Society. In conjunction with the exhibit Hometown Girl: Contemporary Quilts of Mimi Dietrich the museum will show some of its many Baltimore style quilts. Through 2019.
http://www.mdhs.org/museum/exhibitions/upcoming/hometown-girl-contemporary-quilts-mimi-dietrich

Massachusetts, Lowell
The New England Quilt Museum's current show of antique quilts features samplers, old and new, plus a tribute to the much missed Sue Garmanwho did wonderful interpretations of antique quilts. Sue's show up till December 29, 2019.

Nebraska, Lincoln

International Quilt Study Center & Museum

Whimsy. Through November 30, 2019.

Old World Quilts. The earliest quilts in the collection. Through December 11, 2019.
https://www.quiltstudy.org/exhibition/old-world-quilts

October 9-13. American Quilt Study Group's Annual Seminar is in Lincoln this fall.
https://americanquiltstudygroup.org/seminar/seminar2019/

New York, Long Island City
American Folk Art Museum's Self Taught Genius Gallery. A Piece of Yourself: Gift Giving in Self-Taught Art. Through December 31, 2019
https://folkartmuseum.org/exhibitions/

North Carolina, Raleigh
North Carolina Museum of History, QuiltSpeak: Uncovering Women’s Voices Through Quilts
Through March 1, 2020
https://www.ncmuseumofhistory.org/exhibits/quiltspeak

September 28: Bed Turning: Diana Bell-Kite, Curator of Cultural History & Paige Myers, Textile Conservator,  will show you unusual and fragile quilts from the museum collection not in the display. Register here:

https://www.ncmuseumofhistory.org/events/bed-turning%E2%80%94quilts-museum-collection

Catalog available for $20 at the museum's shop:
https://www.ncmuseumofhistoryshop.com/

Ohio, Kent
Kent State Museum. Ohio Quilts from the collection.
https://www.kent.edu/museum/news/explore-ohios-rich-history-ksu-museums-ohio-quilts-exhibit

Oklahoma, Shawnee

MOKA meeting, October 4-5, 2019. (MO,OK,KS & AR Quilt Study Group) with visits to the Mabee-Gerrer Museum and the Pottawatomie County Museum.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/347915538732554/

Oregon, Salem

Willamette Heritage Center. Stitches and Stories: Discoveries from the Oregon Quilt Project

Through December 23, 2019

http://www.oregonquiltproject.org/news-quilt-exhibit-stitches-and-stories/

Pennsylvania, Lancaster
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Decorated and Plain: A Mennonite and Amish Sampler.
Up now till when?

https://www.lmhs.org/visit/exhibits/

Pennsylvania, Lewisburg
Packwood House Museum, Pennsylvania Quilts: Made in Union County.

Through October 5, 2019 
Quilts must be viewed with a guide, 1 pm daily. Other times arranged in advance.
https://packwoodhousemuseum.com/event/packwood-house-museum-quilt-exhibit/?instance_id=1351

Pennsylvania, Pennsville
Schwenkfelder Heritage Center. Signature Quilts from the collection. 

Through November 8, 2019

 http://www.schwenkfelder.com/collectionsexhibits.html

South Carolina, Charleston

AQS Exhibition. The antique quilt show: From Hands Alone: Selected Quilts from the Collection of Chris Moline. September 15-27, 2019.
http://www.quiltweek.com/locations/charleston/charleston-quilt-exhibits/

Texas, Lubbock 
The Museum at Texas Tech, Cotton and Thrift: Feed Sacks and the Household Fabric of Rural America. 
Through December 15, 2019
http://www.depts.ttu.edu/museumttu/exhibitions/2019/CottonandThrift.php

Vermont, Bennington

The Bennington Museum displays its famous Jane Stickle quilt annually---this year from August 31-October 14, 2019.
https://benningtonmuseum.org/portfolio-items/1863-jane-stickle-quilt/

Vermont: Shelburne

Shelburne Museum,  Ink + Icons: Album Quilts from the Permanent Collection. Nine quilts.

Through October 31, 2019
https://shelburnemuseum.org/exhibition/ink-icons-album-quilts-from-the-permanent-collection/

Virginia, Harrisonburg
Virginia Quilt Museum, West Virginia Child of the Civil War, quilts from the collection. Through December, 14.
www.vaquiltmuseum.org

Washington D.C.
DAR Museum. A Piece of Her Mind: Culture and Technology in American Quilts
Through December 31, 2019
https://www.dar.org/museum/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibition
November 15, 2019. “Culture and Technology in American Quilts: A Symposium.”

National Museum of American History, Everyday Luxury: Silk Quilts from the National Collection. 

americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/everydayluxury-silk-quilts-national-collection

Washington, Spokane

Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture. Memory and Meaning: Textiles from the Permanent Collection, featuring an embroidered 17th-century Bengali quilt.  

Through January 12, 2020

https://www.northwestmuseum.org/exhibits/current-exhibits