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Lisa Ellis talks about her selection for a Judge's Choice Award at the Houston International Quilt Festival 2024. Lisa selected the quilt Millstones by Tetiana Bohachuk, and if you are out and about in the Houston area this weekend you can see this beautiful quilt in all its glory at the 50th Anniversary Edition of the Houston Quilt Show.

Lisa Ellis has an exhibit at the 2024 Houston Quilt Show entitled Cathedral Windows Contemporary Explorations, sponsored by Cherrywood Fabrics, that features her quilts that share her "long love affair of the textures and complexity of the overlapping circles of the Cathedral Window design." We caught up with Lisa on the floor of the show and she personally gave us the inside scoop on the exhibit.

The 50th Anniversary of the Houston International Quilt Festival actually begins tomorrow, October 31, 2024, but some will get to experience all the grandeur tonight as preview night takes place. What will you see when you enter the doors of the convention center? It truly is a sight to behold, and when the TQS crew visited the show early last week they got a glimpse of what would greet every quilter as they walked though those doors. What did they see? Take a look for yourself, and get some other sneak peeks of the convention floor.

Last week Ricky spoke with Victoria Findlay Wolfe about her new exhibit at the International Quilt Museum entitled Option Expedition. In the exhibit, Victoria "takes basic shapes of patchwork — square, circle, triangle, parallelogram — and breaks down design principles of space, balance, scale, line, shape, color, emphasis, contrast, value, repetition, movement, texture, and unity to look at the bold, beautiful choices available." Click through to learn even more about this amazing new installation and plan a trip for yourself to visit.

Join world-class Batik artists Jonathan Evans, Chairman of the Batik Guild, and his wife Beth, as they invite you to the BatikUSA Art Exhibition, the very first All-American batik show opening at the Estelle Creative Art Center in La Veta, Colorado on August 31, 2024. Click through to find out more about this stunning show and its collection of "15 of the most talented batik artists from across the United States" work.

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.

Comic Con 2024 begins tomorrow, and with it a cavalcade of pop culture centric fans, collectors, designers, costumers, and more will descend upon San Diego. One of the central hubs where those designers will meet will be at the Her Universe Fashion Show, a geek couture, as in not a costume, fashion show inspired by pop culture. This year's show will take place Thursday, July 25​, 2024, but in the meantime you can watch last year's show in its entirety, where the theme was fandom and fashion through 100 years of Disney.

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.

From The Festival of Quilts: "For over fifty years, Lynne Edwards MBE has been making quilts, and now that retirement looms, it’s time to showcase that enormous body of work and find new homes for them all in her 'Swan Song' exhibition at The Festival of Quilts 2024. It will also be a great opportunity for Lynne to bid a public farewell and thank the hundreds of amazing people she has met, taught, and laughed with over the years​."

From the Smithsonian American Art Museum: "Explore the creative practice of Amish quilters in the United States. Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women looks beyond quilting as a utilitarian practice. It reveals historical quilting among the Amish as an aesthetic endeavor that walked a line between cultural and individual expression. The quilts paradoxically twin the plain with the spectacular, tradition with innovation, and a dismissal of personal pride with objects often seen as extraordinary artworks."

From the International Quilt Museum (IQM): "Have you seen “A New Deal for Quilts” yet? Set aside some time to join us before the exhibition closes on April 20! With quilts from the IQM collection as well as historical photos and documentary sources, this exhibition tells the stories of quiltmakers in the United States and how they coped with the hard times of the Great Depression. It also explores how quiltmaking was used by government agencies as an emblem of American perseverance and frugality, and to promote new vocational and homemaking skills for women."

Now through July 30, 2024, the National Quilt Museum is featuring Karen Nyberg's work as part of her exhibition, The Stars Are Aligned, which celebrates her time as an astronaut, living in space, her family, and her interest in Earth conservation. The exhibition also features a set of Astronomical Quilts that were commissioned in 2013 by NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration to honor Karen's mission on the International Space Station.

From The National Gallery of Art: "This transformative exhibition explores how abstract art and woven textiles have intertwined over the past hundred years. In the 20th century, textiles have often been considered lesser—as applied art, women’s work, or domestic craft. Woven Histories challenges the hierarchies that often separate textiles from fine arts. Putting into dialogue some 160 works by more than 50 creators from across generations and continents, the exhibition explores the contributions of weaving and related techniques to abstraction, modernism’s preeminent art form."