Exhibits: Antique Quilts Spring/Summer 2014

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It's road trip season.
Pack up the kids and see a show or two of antique quilts.
Here's a listing for spring and summer, 2014.

California, Folsom
Folsom History Museum. Their annual Antique Quilt and Vintage Fashions exhibit opens May 31. http://www.folsomhistorymuseum.org/index.htm

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 Nickols Collection

California, San Diego

Connecticut, Willimantic
Windham Textile & History Museum, Inspiration Quilts: Then and Now, 12 antique quilts from the museum's collection plus quilts inspired by them.May 16 through September 7http://www.millmuseum.org/events/ 

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Illinois G.A.R. Fundraiser

Illinois, Lockport
Illinois State Museum Lockport Gallery, Civil War Quilters: Loyal Hearts of Illinois
This show of quilts and other objects from the collection of the ISM, shown in Chicago and Springfield last year, curated by Angela Goebel-Bain, Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts, is up through October 17, 2014.

http://www.museum.state.il.us/ismsites/lockport/ http://www.museum.state.il.us/ismsites/main/exhibitions.html?ExhibitID=254  

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The Garden by Josephine Hunter Craig, Emporia, Kansas

Collection of the Kansas State Historical Society

Kansas, Topeka
Kansas Museum of History. Speaking of Quilts: Voices from the Collections and the Community.Through August 31, 2014
http://www.kshs.org/ 

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From The Pilgrim/Roy Collection

Massachusetts, Boston

Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Quilts and Color: The Pilgrim/Roy Collection.Through July 27, 2014.60 quilts chosen for color and graphics by Gerry Roy and the late Paul Pilgrim.

http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions

Massachusetts, Lowell
New England Quilt Museum, Charmed: Every Piece Is Different, Selections from the Pat L. Nickols Collection at the Mingei International Museum. Through July 6, 2014.

Down By the Old Mill Stream: Rhode Island Quilts, July 10 - October 5

http://nequiltmuseum.org/home.html 

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Nebraska, Lincoln

International Quilt Study Center and Quilt Museum:

• Design Dynamics of Log Cabins, from the Holstein collection, through November 29, 2014.
• The Whole Story: Quilting Patterns. Through June 1, 2014.
• Expanding the Collection: Recent Acquisitions, though August 31, 2014.
• Modern Marvels: Quilts Made from Kits, 1915-1950. Opening June 6, 2014.
• Signature Cloths, Guest-curated by Lynn Setterington, Opening September 5, 2014

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

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Secession quilt by Mary Green McPherson

Collection of the 

Arkansas Territorial Museum.

New York, Manhattan 

The New-York Historical Society. Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil War.Curated by Madelyn Shaw and Lynn Z. Bassett and organized by the American Textile History Museum, this 2013 show is up through August 24, 2014. Catalog available.
http://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/homefront-battlefield-quilts-context-civil-war 

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Edward Thorp Gallery “American Quilts and Coverlets from the 19th through Mid 20th Century,”  curated by Laura Fisher, through June 7, 2014.
  http://edwardthorpgallery.com/2014-textiles

Ohio, Cincinnati
Heritage Village Museum. Antique Quilt Exhibit, 19 quilts from the collection. Through July 27, 2014.
http://www.heritagevillagecincinnati.org/events.aspx 

Vermont, Shelburne

Shelburne Museum, All Star Quilts: The John Wilmerding Collection, 30 Star-Themed Quilts, June 27 - October 26  plus Seeking Beauty: Quilts by Nancy Crow, May 11-October 31, 2014.

Virginia, Mt. Crawford

Textiles in 18th & 19th c. Virginia. June 14, 2014.

One-day seminar at Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates Gallery. 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM ET. Speakers: Mary Holton Robare, Kim Ivey, Kathleen Staples, Jeffrey S. Evans.

http://www.jeffreysevans.com/classes_seminars.php#2014TextileSeminar 

Virginia, Williamsburg

DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum. Threads of Feeling: Poignant Stories.Exhibit from London's Foundling Hospital features scraps of mid-18th century fabrics left as tokens with abandoned babies. Though not a quilt exhibit, the fabrics and the stories are fascinating. Through May 26, 2014.

http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/do/art-museums/wallace-museum/threads-of-feeling/
 

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Virginia, Winchester

Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society, A Collection of Quilts (from the society's collection.)Through Oct 31, 2014.

Also June 13-15, 2014, Quaker Quilts - Special 3-Day Exhibit.

http://www.winchesterhistory.org/society_events.htm 

Wisconsin, Cedarburg
Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts,  Mary McElwain Quilts & Ephemera curated by Carol Butzke June 25 through October 12, 2014
http://wiquiltmuseum.com/

Wisconsin, Milwaukee
The American Quilt Study Group's annual seminar is scheduled for September 10-14, 2014.

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