The Pasadena California
Thimble Club on a field trip in the 1930s
Get your friends on a bus and go.
Detail of a Confederate applique quilt made by
Susan Robb,1861-1862.
Collection of the Museum of Texas Tech University
California, Los Angeles. The Autry Museum in Griffith Park. Empire and Liberty: The Civil War in the West. There's only one quilt in this large exhibit but it's the spectacular Susan Robb figural quilt.
Through January 3, 2016.
http://civilwar.theautry.org/
The Fisk Sanitary Commission Quilt from
the Lincoln Memorial Shrine in Redlands, California
is on display in Pasadena.
California, Pasadena
Pasadena Museum of History. When Johnny Came Marching West: How the Civil War Shaped Pasadena. Through September 20, 2015. Four Civil-War-related quilts are among the many artifacts.www.pasadenahistory.org
California, San Diego
The Mingei Museum will display changing selections from the Pat L. Nickols collection throughout 2015 in its Theater Gallery. Check before planning a trip.
http://www.mingei.org
California, San Jose
San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. Found/Made. Curator Roderick Kiracofe includes found quilts from his collection and those of Julie Silber and Marjorie Childress. Made quilts include contemporary quilts constructed with found materials as well as contemporary art based on quilt themes.
July 11 – November 1, 2015http://www.sjquiltmuseum.org/exhibitions.html
California, Santa Ana.
Bowers Museum. The Red That Colored the World; Cochineal. 100 objects-textiles, sculpture, paintings, manuscripts, decorative arts, clothing and more- the exhibition explores the history of cochineal and the seductive visual nature of red.
October 31, 2015 - March 21, 2016
http://www.bowers.org/index.php/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions/417-the-red-that-colored-the-world
Colorado, Golden
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. It's What We Do: 25 Years of Collecting. July 30 through October 27, 2015.
https://rmqm.org
October 31, 2015 - March 21, 2016
http://www.bowers.org/index.php/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions/417-the-red-that-colored-the-world
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. It's What We Do: 25 Years of Collecting. July 30 through October 27, 2015.
https://rmqm.org
Indiana, Indianapolis
19 Stars: Quilts of Indiana's Past and Present. Celebrating the bicentennial of Indiana's statehood (the 19th state) with an exhibit of 19 vintage and 19 contemporary star quilts. Through October 4, 2015http://www.indianamuseum.org/visit/exhibits
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19 Stars: Quilts of Indiana's Past and Present. Celebrating the bicentennial of Indiana's statehood (the 19th state) with an exhibit of 19 vintage and 19 contemporary star quilts. Through October 4, 2015http://www.indianamuseum.org/visit/exhibits
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Kentucky, Paducah
Quilt Museum. A Tradition of Variations from the Pilgrim/Roy Collection, traditional quilts with unique style.
Through August 17.
Red, White and Quilted. Contemporary and antique quilts.
October 16, 2015 - January 12, 2016
http://www.quiltmuseum.org/
Maine, Augusta
At Maine Quilts 2015 expo, Augusta Civic Center, Something Old, Something New: Early Quilts from the Maine State Museum. Sponsored by Busy Thimble, Litchfield, Maine.
July 24-26, 2015
Quilt Museum. A Tradition of Variations from the Pilgrim/Roy Collection, traditional quilts with unique style.
Through August 17.
Red, White and Quilted. Contemporary and antique quilts.
October 16, 2015 - January 12, 2016
http://www.quiltmuseum.org/
Maine, Augusta
At Maine Quilts 2015 expo, Augusta Civic Center, Something Old, Something New: Early Quilts from the Maine State Museum. Sponsored by Busy Thimble, Litchfield, Maine.
July 24-26, 2015
Susan Craig Spurgeon's interpretation of an antique
from the collection of the New England Quilt Museum
Massachusetts, Lowell
New England Quilt Museum. The American Quilt Study Group's Civil War Era Quilt Study will be up through October 1, 2015.Small Wonders: Doll and Crib Quilts
November 5 - December 26, 2015
http://nequiltmuseum.org/
Nebraska, Lincoln
International Quilt Study Center & Museum/Quilt House. Among the many contemporary and antique quilt exhibits up now:
November 5 - December 26, 2015
http://nequiltmuseum.org/
International Quilt Study Center & Museum/Quilt House. Among the many contemporary and antique quilt exhibits up now:
- Covering the War
- Director's Choice: Red & Green Applique
- Selections from the Ghormley Collection of Doll Beds
African-American Quilts from the Cargo Collection.
Sept. 4, 2015 - May 24, 2016Oregon, Philomath
Benton County Museum. Modern Materials, Quilts of the 1970s, quilts from the Volkening collection. August 21 - October 3, 2015
Pennsylvania, Harrisburg
Susquehanna Art Museum. Quilts 20/20: Traditional Roots, Contemporary Art. 20 historic quilts from the Pilgrim/Roy collection and the LancasterHistory.org collection plus contemporary pieces.
Through August 30, 2015.
Turkey red and white delectable mountains quilt
with corners cut out for a four-poster bed.
Texas, LaGrangeTexas Quilt Museum. Antique Four-Poster Quilts is part of the overall exhibit theme: "Quilted To a ‘T’ ". Through September 27, 2015.
http://www.texasquiltmuseum.org/
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http://www.texasquiltmuseum.org/
Virginia, Harrisonburg
Virginia Quilt Museum.
Civil War Quilts: Antebellum to Reunion. July 4 - October 3, 2015. "Quilts from the Shenandoah Valley, some donated by local families along with family history from that period."
Virginia Quilt Museum.
Civil War Quilts: Antebellum to Reunion. July 4 - October 3, 2015. "Quilts from the Shenandoah Valley, some donated by local families along with family history from that period."
New Quilts From an Old Favorite: Carolina Lily. July 14 to October 4, 2015
Seminar, July 24-25, 2015. Civil War Quilts: What the Women Left Behind.
Featured Speaker Lynne Zacek Bassett, "Herstory in Civil War Quilts."
http://www.vaquiltmuseum.org/
http://www.vaquiltmuseum.org/special-events/quilt-study-seminar/
http://www.vaquiltmuseum.org/
http://www.vaquiltmuseum.org/special-events/quilt-study-seminar/
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.
Posey Quilt, Early 19th-century
Collection Dumbarton House.
Dumbarton House. A Quilt Full of Poseys and Provenance. Examines the early 19th century “Posey Quilt” pieced of silk dress fabrics from Martha Washington, Nelly Custis, and the quilt’s creator, Mary Alexander Posey, and the lives of the women in the context of historical uses of silk and textiles in Federal America. Through September 7, 2015
http://dumbartonhouse.org/archives/2990
Wisconsin, Cedarburg
Wisconsin Quilt Museum. In Stitches: Embroidery Needle Arts includes crazy quilts, punchneedle, redwork, needlepoint, counted cross-stitch artwork. Through July 12, 2015.
Wisconsin Quilt Museum. In Stitches: Embroidery Needle Arts includes crazy quilts, punchneedle, redwork, needlepoint, counted cross-stitch artwork. Through July 12, 2015.