Pack a lunch and get on the road to see some
shows featuring antique quilts spring and summer, 2015.
The Mingei Museum will display changing selections from the Pat L. Nickols collection throughout 2015 in its Theater Gallery.
http://www.mingei.org/americanicons/
Kiracofe Collection
California, SonomaSonoma Valley Museum of Art. Unconventional and Unexpected: American Quilts Below the Radar, 1950–2000. Visually stunning pieced quilts and quilt tops, mid-to late-20th century, from the collection of Rod Kiracofe. Through May 17, 2015
Colorado, Golden
Colorado, Golden
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. Past Presence: Antique Quilts that Capture the Imagination. Through April 28.
It's What We Do: 25 Years of Collecting. July 30 through October 27, 2015.
https://rmqm.org
Kentucky, Paducah
National Quilt Museum. This year's New Quilts from an Old Favorite features the Nine Patch with innovative quilts and antiques. Though May 19.
A Tradition of Variations from the Pilgrim/Roy Collection, traditional quilts with unique style.
May 22 - August 17
http://www.quiltmuseum.org/upcoming-exhibits.html
https://rmqm.org
Kentucky, Paducah
National Quilt Museum. This year's New Quilts from an Old Favorite features the Nine Patch with innovative quilts and antiques. Though May 19.
A Tradition of Variations from the Pilgrim/Roy Collection, traditional quilts with unique style.
May 22 - August 17
http://www.quiltmuseum.org/upcoming-exhibits.html
April 21–25, 2015.
Massachusetts, Lowell
New England Quilt Museum. A Passion for Prussian Blue, curated by Anita Loscalzo, focuses on this brilliant dye. Through April 4, 2015.
http://www.nequiltmuseum.org/
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Nebraska, Lincoln
International Quilt Study Center & Museum/Quilt House.
http://www.quiltstudy.org/exhibitions/nowshowing/nowshowing.html
IQSC's Seventh Biennial Symposium, Making and Mending: Quilts for Causes & Commemoration, will be held April 16-18, 2015. See more here:
http://www.quiltstudy.org/discovery/symposium/
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Nebraska State Historical Society at the Great Plains Art Museum. Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil War. This show from the American Textile History Museum "highlights a broad range of textile artifacts and other objects to explore the Civil War." Through June 27, 2015.
http://www.unl.edu/plains/gallery/exhibitions.shtml
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Texas Quilt Museum. Antique Log Cabin Quilts from the International Quilt Study Center plus Vintage Apps: Block Quilts and Appliqué.
New England Quilt Museum. A Passion for Prussian Blue, curated by Anita Loscalzo, focuses on this brilliant dye. Through April 4, 2015.
http://www.nequiltmuseum.org/
Nebraska, Lincoln
International Quilt Study Center & Museum/Quilt House.
- Signature Cloths.
- Reflections of the Exotic East in American Quilts.
- Covering the War: American Quilts in Times of Conflict.
http://www.quiltstudy.org/exhibitions/nowshowing/nowshowing.html
IQSC's Seventh Biennial Symposium, Making and Mending: Quilts for Causes & Commemoration, will be held April 16-18, 2015. See more here:
http://www.quiltstudy.org/discovery/symposium/
http://www.unl.edu/plains/gallery/exhibitions.shtml
Log Cabin from IQSC collection
Texas, LaGrangeTexas Quilt Museum. Antique Log Cabin Quilts from the International Quilt Study Center plus Vintage Apps: Block Quilts and Appliqué.
- Kimono Quilts and Kimonos April 2-June 28, 2015
- Antique Four-Poster Quilts July 2-September 27, 2015.
http://www.texasquiltmuseum.org/
Virginia, Christiansburg
Montgomery Museum and Lewis Miller Regional Art Center. A Pieced History: Quilts of Montgomery County. Twenty locally made historical quilts, through April, 2015.
http://montgomerymuseum.org/
Virginia, Harrisonburg
Civil War Quilts: Antebellum to Reunion. July 14 to October 3, 2015
http://www.vaquiltmuseum.org/
Virginia, Williamsburg
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, A Celebration of Quilts " quilts that represent the diversity of quilts made in America from the 18th through 20th centuries. Several of the quilts are new to the collection and have never before been seen by the public."
Through June, 2016.
http://www.history.org/history/museums/abby_art_current.cfm
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Washington D.C.
D.A.R. Museum. Eye on Elegance: Early Quilts of Maryland and Virginia. Through September 5, 2015.
Curator of Costume and Textiles Alden O’Brien looks at quilts from Maryland and Virginia in an exhibit of 36 quilts with a focus on quilts from 1790 to 1860, design migrations and the many hands who made the quilts.
Wisconsin, Cedarburg
Wisconsin Quilt Museum. In Stitches: Embroidery Needle Arts. Exhibit includes crazy quilts, punchneedle, redwork, needlepoint, counted cross-stitch artwork. April 15 – July 12, 2015
Montgomery Museum and Lewis Miller Regional Art Center. A Pieced History: Quilts of Montgomery County. Twenty locally made historical quilts, through April, 2015.
http://montgomerymuseum.org/
Virginia, Harrisonburg
Civil War Quilts: Antebellum to Reunion. July 14 to October 3, 2015
http://www.vaquiltmuseum.org/
Virginia, Williamsburg
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, A Celebration of Quilts " quilts that represent the diversity of quilts made in America from the 18th through 20th centuries. Several of the quilts are new to the collection and have never before been seen by the public."
Through June, 2016.
http://www.history.org/history/museums/abby_art_current.cfm
Quilt by Amelia Haskell Lauck
DAR Museum
D.A.R. Museum. Eye on Elegance: Early Quilts of Maryland and Virginia. Through September 5, 2015.
Curator of Costume and Textiles Alden O’Brien looks at quilts from Maryland and Virginia in an exhibit of 36 quilts with a focus on quilts from 1790 to 1860, design migrations and the many hands who made the quilts.
Wisconsin, Cedarburg
Wisconsin Quilt Museum. In Stitches: Embroidery Needle Arts. Exhibit includes crazy quilts, punchneedle, redwork, needlepoint, counted cross-stitch artwork. April 15 – July 12, 2015