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."
Every year before the Houston International Quilts Festival, Quilts, Inc. holds the Fall Quilt Market, "the only credentialed trade show in the world dedicated to quilting and sewing exclusively." Well, now that won't be the only time you'll be able get the inside track on all things quilting, as the Spring Quilt Market will officially be returning next year from April 10-12, 2026 at America’s Center in St. Louis, Missouri! Click through to find out more about this exciting return.
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.
Join TQS's Susan Cleveland and co-hostess, Kimberly Einmo, in Japan this November! They've planned hands-on textile workshops and visits to Yoko Saito's quilt shop, the Yokohama quilt show, markets, a museum, shrine, garden and other surprises. Opulent Quilt Journeys takes great care to arrange top-notch experiences abroad. You really don't want to miss this opulent tour!
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.
The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles has a new exhibit on display entitled Just Quilts!, "featuring three innovative, diverse, talented quilters from the Valley of Heart's Delight (Santa Clara Valley). These quilters being Charlotte Scholberg, Randa Mulford, and the late Joy Palmer." Come check out these great quilts at one of the Bay Area's preeminent quilting destinations. But come soon if you want to see it, as it'll only be there for a month.
From Netflix: "The Quilters follows the daily lives of several quilters inside the sewing room at South Central Correctional Center, a Level 5 maximum-security prison in a small town two hours south of St. Louis, MO."
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."
Producing each edition of International Quilt Festival & International Quilt Market requires not only a dedicated full-time staff, but scores and scores of both paid and volunteer workers. Overseeing and scheduling these workers is the task of the Piece Corps, Show Assistant, and Volunteer Coordinator. Quilts, Inc. announces that Garri Kaye has been named to the position. She brings with her nearly a decade of experience in multiple roles for the shows, and is replacing the retiring Terri Winsauer. “I am so excited to have Garri Kaye take over,” Winsauer notes. “She is the perfect person for this position—and she’s a quilter herself!”
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."
Ian Berry is known for his masterful works created exclusively from denim. This last year he had a denim installation on display at the Garden Museum in London, which actually was a garden that Ian created entirely from denim. This Secret Garden as it was titled featured flora, fauna, grass, and everything else one could find in nature patterned out in that all too familiar shade of denim blue. Click through to learn more about this amazing display and to see some great photos as well.
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."
A short documentary on the 25 Million Stitches: One Stitch, One Refugee exhibit that was on display at The Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts from March 1 through July 28, 2024 recently won three Chicago/Midwest Emmy Awards. This short captured the exhibit which "is an artistic statement from the international community about human displacement, immigration, and solidarity. It is an aggregation of 25 million hand-sewn stitches, each representing a single displaced human being as counted in the UN’s High Commissioner on Refugees 2019 report."
From The New-York Historical Society: "Curators Anna Danziger Halperin and Keren Ben-Horin discuss the exhibition "Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore, the Smith College Historic Clothing Collection" on view September 27, 2024 - June 22, 2025. The groundbreaking exhibition examines the everyday clothing of ordinary women, from hard-worn house dresses to psychedelic micro minis and modern suits to fast-food workers’ uniforms."