The latest exhibit at the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska opens today and is ready for all to see. The exhibit, "Chinese Quilts Today", showcases "the ways in which quiltmaking is a thriving, growing, and changing art form in modern China." See photos from the museum showing off the installation of the latest exhibit, and find out more about this fascinating portion of quilting history.
From The Dairy Barn Arts Center: "Featuring 27 first-time exhibitors alongside returning artists, Quilt National ’25 highlights fresh perspectives and new voices in the quilting world. From exploring social themes to experimenting with materials and textures, these works reflect the ever-evolving nature of this vibrant art form."
From SAQA: "This exhibition will feature artwork inspired by the natural world which also uses fiber and textile materials or techniques. Curated by the Denver Botanic Gardens curatorial team from the Fiber Art Now print exhibition, the exhibit will be on view May 17 through September 28, 2025, in the Kemper Family Gallery."
From the Texas Quilt Museum: "Saddle up and get ready to head to the Texas Quilt Museum for the debut of three brand new exhibits this Spring and Summer! Visitors will enjoy Blue Ribbon Prizewinners from the 2025 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Framed Center/Medallion Quilts, and Rebound-Renew-Reimagine. They will run from May 1, 2025 through August 23, 2025." Click through to find out more about the new exhibits, and watch a video to see how the museum switches out the previous exhibits and installs the new ones.
The Quilt Show ran into Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry at her exhibit, Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry: A Life In Color, at the National Quilt Museum this weekend as part of the festivities for the 2025 edition of the Paducah Quilt Show. While there, she showed us two of her firsts, her very first quilt, and her first art quilt. See both of these quilts as they were hung in the exhibit and chart the journey she took from her beginnings to now.
This past year Janet Stone finished the last quilt in a her Alphabet series, which has twenty-six quilts with each one corresponding to a letter of the alphabet, that she began in 2008. And guess what? Starting next year you'll be able to see all of them together for the first time at the National Quilt Museum as part of their new exhibit, Janet Stone: And Now I Know My ABCs. Click through to learn more about this exciting exhibit to come.
The Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is launching a new exhibit this month featuring Revolutionary War flags to commemorate a number of anniversaries taking place this year. "The Museum will mark the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the Revolutionary War and the creation of the United States Armed Forces (Army, Navy, and Marine Corps) with a new special exhibition, Banners of Liberty: An Exhibition of Original Revolutionary War Flags, opening April 19, 2025. The exhibition, which will be displayed in the Museum's first-floor Patriots Gallery, will feature the largest gathering of rare and significant Revolutionary War flags in more than two centuries."
This past Friday Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, friend and past guest of The Quilt Show, had a celebratory retrospective exhibition of quilts debut at the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky entitled Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry: A Life In Color. This career-spanning display of her work features some of her most famous quilts and is an amazing opportunity to see such a large body of her work together in one place. Click through to find out more about the exhibit.
From the National Quilt Museum: "For more than 50 years, Mr. Mallard has chronicled world events through his vibrant and intricately detailed thread collages. Born of brilliantly colored embroidery floss, fabric, patience and time, his quilts have been showcased in the United States and Europe. He has been profiled in Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, Linda LaPinta’s book Kentucky Quilts and Quiltmakers, Three Centuries of Creativity, Community, and Commerce, inducted in the Mc Comb Mississippi Wall of Fame, and was honored with the ArtsReach “Living the Vision” Award. Joe’s feature quilts include his Obama Tie Quilt, which chronicles the first four years of the Obama administration and an embroidered denim jacket he presented to former President Jimmy Carter, which highlights key events of his political life."
From the American Folk Art Museum: "Featuring 42 textile works and oil paintings, Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets is the first comprehensive survey of Santos Reinbolt’s art ever presented and marks the first-ever solo museum exhibition for the artist organized outside her native Brazil. Best known for her large-scale embroideries made from hundreds of vibrant colored threads, which the artist referred to as quadros de lã (“wool paintings”), the exhibition represents more than half of all known works by the artist and examines the artist’s work through a variety of lenses, including gender, race, and socio-economic dynamics."
From the Texas Quilt Museum: "Libby Lehman: The Art of Quilting celebrates the groundbreaking creativity and techniques in quilting pioneered by Lehman, one of the best-known fabric artists in the world. Of special note among the 13 works chosen for this exhibit is Lehman’s Joy Ride, which was picked as one of “The 20th Century’s 100 Best American Quilts.” Click through to find out more about the exhibit and other exhibits making their way to the Texas Quilt Museum.
From Salley Mavor: "Come along on a video tour of Enchanting Threads: The Art of Salley Mavor, my current exhibition at the Albany Institute of History & Art. The show will be there through March 2, 2025, so, there’s plenty of time to plan a trip to Albany, NY with your friends and family! For those of you who live too far away to visit, please take 5 minutes to walk through the galleries with me."
In this second video from The Quilt District, Sewn In America exhibit curator Alden O'Brien takes us through the rest of the exhibition at the Daughters of the American Revolution Museum in Washington DC.
In this first video from The Quilt District, Sewn In America exhibit curator Alden O'Brien takes us through her latest exhibition at the Daughters of the American Revolution Museum in Washington DC. This is the first of a two-part video tour of the exhibition, filmed April 25 and April 26, 2024. Stay tuned for Part 2.
Paula Nadelstern, the Kaleidoscope Quilt Queen, has an exhibition of over 22 pieces of her collected kaleidoscope quilts on display at The New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, MA. Come and see this very cool collection of kaleidoscopic designed quilts while you still can, now through September 14, 2024.
Did you know that the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles in San Jose, California has online exhibits? They call them 24/7 Exhibitions and they are available online 24/7 so you can visit them on your time. One they are currently featuring is called Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women's Suffrage. Click through to find out more about this fascinating new quilt exhibit.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has a brand new exhibition on display now through September 2, 2024 entitled Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion. Watch and discover this amazing and sensory-awakening installation in this video by joining "Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute, on a tour of the exhibition."
Susan Carlson, past guest of The Quilt Show, is receiving the honor of having an exhibit of her work on display at The National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY. The exhibit, Susan Carlson: Specimens, will take a look at smaller quilts made earlier in her career that showcase the specimens of the title, such as insects, fish, and other creatures.
From The Festival of Quilts: "We're delighted to present The Quilt Collection exhibition from The Quilters' Guild of The British Isles - Patchwork: Pattern and Print: 1780-1840.This year's exhibition by The Quilt Collection showcases a stunning array of late 18th and early 19th-century patchworks. Featuring fabrics dating back to the 1780s, it's a unique opportunity to view historically significant pieces, some never before publicly displayed."
Once in a while, our TQS Photographer and Newsletter editor steps in front of the camera, but it has to be a very rare occasion. In this instance, Mary Kay Davis got to see her quilt live and in person at the National Quilt Museum as part of the New Quilts from an Old Favorite: Roaring Twenties exhibit. Click through to see Mary's quilt quilt and learn about it and the exhibit.