Time to get that bike in gear
to see the summer quilt shows.
California, San Jose
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. Milestones: Textiles of Transition.
How historic and contemporary textiles have been created for and continue to signify moments of transition.
Through July 21, 2013
Illinois, Springfield
Illinois State Museum. Civil War Quilters: Loyal Hearts of Illinois.
Through September 8, 2013
This expanded show, which was in Chicago last year, features antique quilts with Civil War stories plus weapons and household artifacts from the era.
Kentucky, Paducah
National Quilt Museum. Antique Jacob's Ladder Quilts.
National Quilt Museum. Antique Jacob's Ladder Quilts.
Through June 11, 2013
http://www.quiltmuseum.org/current-exhibits.html
From the Pieces of a Nation: Civil War Period Quilts.
July 12 to October 8, 2013
Quilts from Arlan & Pat Christ's collection.
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From the Pieces of a Nation: Civil War Period Quilts.
July 12 to October 8, 2013
Quilts from Arlan & Pat Christ's collection.
Massachusetts, Lexington
National Heritage Museum. Threads of Brotherhood: Masonic Quilts and Textiles.
Over 25 quilts, coverlets, needlework pictures, and hooked rugs with Masonic themes. Up through the spring.
Over 25 quilts, coverlets, needlework pictures, and hooked rugs with Masonic themes. Up through the spring.
Massachusetts, Lowell
New England Quilt Museum:
SILK! Luxurious Antique & Contemporary Works. Through July 7, 2013.
SILK! Luxurious Antique & Contemporary Works. Through July 7, 2013.
A Slice of Cheddar. A Selection of Antique Pennsylvania Quilts. July 11-October 14, 2013.
http://nequiltmuseum.org/home.html
June 15: Sue Reich will give a lecture: "Susie C. Walker: Her Life and Quilts in a 19th Century Connecticut Silk Mill Company Town"
August 8-10, 2013: The annual Lowell Quilt Festival will feature antique star quilts from the NEQM collection.
http://www.lowellquiltfestival.org/
June 15: Sue Reich will give a lecture: "Susie C. Walker: Her Life and Quilts in a 19th Century Connecticut Silk Mill Company Town"
August 8-10, 2013: The annual Lowell Quilt Festival will feature antique star quilts from the NEQM collection.
http://www.lowellquiltfestival.org/
Mrs. Ogahmahgegedo (Odawa),
ca. 1912
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Collection of MSUM, acc# 6814.1
For a similar Odawa quilt see New York below.
Michigan, Mount Pleasant
Ziibiwing Center. Great Lakes Native Quilting.
16 quilts from the Michigan State University Museum. Through August 3, 2013.
16 quilts from the Michigan State University Museum. Through August 3, 2013.
Detail of the Honstain quilt
See the whole quilt here:
Nebraska, Beatrice
Homestead National Monument of America. Lucinda Ward Honstain's Reconciliation Quilt is on loan from the International Quilt Study Center and Museum Through June 16, 2013.
Nebraska, Lincoln
International Quilt Study Center and Quilt Museum:
Indigo Gives America the Blues. Through June 2, 2013.
Perfecting the Past: Colonial Revival Quilts. Through September 1, 2013.
Posing With Patchwork Quilts: Quilts in Photographs 1855-1955. Through December 1, 2013.
Indigo Gives America the Blues. Through June 2, 2013.
Perfecting the Past: Colonial Revival Quilts. Through September 1, 2013.
Posing With Patchwork Quilts: Quilts in Photographs 1855-1955. Through December 1, 2013.
The Engineer Who Could: Ernest Haight’s Half Century of Quiltmaking. June 7 - March 2, 2014.
http://www.quiltstudy.org/exhibitions/
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http://www.quiltstudy.org/exhibitions/
Album Quilt
Elizabeth Prickett
Burlington County, New Jersey
New Jersey, Woodbury
Stitches Through Time: A Legacy of Quilts. Gloucester County Historical Society. More than 30 quilts dating from the 1830s-1930s. Through October, 2013.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njgchs/
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njgchs/
New Mexico, Santa Fe
Museum of International Folk Art. Plain Geometry: Amish Quilts.
34 quilts from the collection and local collectors. Through September 2, 2013.
34 quilts from the collection and local collectors. Through September 2, 2013.
New Mexico, Las Cruces
New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. Stitches in Time: Quilts from the Museum’s Collection. 32 quilts from 1830 to 1970. Through March 23, 2014.
New York, Brooklyn
Brooklyn Museum."Workt by Hand”: Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts.
Approximately 35 American and European quilt masterpieces from the Museum’s collection. Curator: Catherine Morris. Through September 15, 2013.
Approximately 35 American and European quilt masterpieces from the Museum’s collection. Curator: Catherine Morris. Through September 15, 2013.
New York, Blue Mountain Lake
Adirondack Museum. “Common Threads: 150 Years of Adirondack Quilts & Comforters”
Historic and contemporary quilts. May 24 – October 14, 2013
Quilt by a member of the Odawa tribe
From the Katonah Museum exhibit.
See Michigan above for another Odawa quilt.
New York, Katonah
Katonah Museum of Art. Beyond the Bed: The American Quilt Evolution.
Jean Burks, senior curator at the Shelburne Museum, explores "the wide range of antique and contemporary quilts intended as bed coverings, articles of clothing, furniture accessories, wall decoration, and finally, three-dimensional room sculpture.
Through June 16, 2013.
http://www.katonahmuseum.org/exhibitions/upcoming/
http://www.katonahmuseum.org/exhibitions/upcoming/
Pennsylvania, Muncy
Muncy Historical Society. Annual Quilt Show & Challenge.
Antique and vintage quilts, both from private collections and from the museum’s collection.
July 19 – 20, 2013
South Carolina, Charleston
The Charleston Museum. Early 20th Century Quilts.
Through August 4, 2013
http://www.charlestonmuseum.org/
http://www.charlestonmuseum.org/
The American Quilt Study Group's annual seminar will be in Charleston
September 18-23
http://www.americanquiltstudygroup.org/seminar.asp
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Vermont, Essex Junction
Vermont Quilt Festival. June 28-30.
For Fellowship, Love and Farewell. The antique quilt exhibit this year is curated by Debra Grana and Sharon Waddell.
http://www.vqf.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12&Itemid=7
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Vermont, Essex Junction
Vermont Quilt Festival. June 28-30.
For Fellowship, Love and Farewell. The antique quilt exhibit this year is curated by Debra Grana and Sharon Waddell.
http://www.vqf.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12&Itemid=7
Virginia, Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg. Foster and Muriel McCarl Gallery. Quilts in the Baltimore Manner.
A dozen quilts 1845 to 1855. Curated by Linda Baumgarten and Kim Ivey.
A dozen quilts 1845 to 1855. Curated by Linda Baumgarten and Kim Ivey.
Through May 11, 2014.
http://www.history.org/history/museums/abby_art_current.cfm
Washington, La Conner
http://www.history.org/history/museums/abby_art_current.cfm
Washington, La Conner
La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum. Historical Quilts from Oregon's Latimer Quilt & Textile Center,
Through June 23, 2013
http://www.laconnerquilts.com/exhibits/
http://www.laconnerquilts.com/exhibits/