It’s April in Paducah. Spring has arrived early and everywhere you look lush colorful flowers are abloom in downtown garden areas, beautiful quilts grace the window displays in the shops and cafés, the Quilt City USA banners are hung along Broadway and carpenters and city workers are tending to last minute maintenance. Soon more than […]
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In college, I studied a lot of art history. We were introduced the “isms” in the first semester – classicism, impressionism, expressionism, cubism, modernism, futurism – all the various movements and their distinct styles. The general emphasis of art history was to help students discern styles and associate them with periods. Impressionist painting for example, […]
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It’s Women’s History Month and National Quilting Month, so what better way to celebrate than with quilts? Episode 7 of “Why Quilts Matter” is all about how quilts have empowered women. The topic intrigues me, as a Generation X male existing in the female-dominated world of quilts. Clearly in the minority among my “quilt lady” […]
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Shapiro’s definition of a quilt goes well beyond our traditional understanding and her definition leads us to embrace the process of quilting as a significant element in empowering women. Women made considerable financial contributions during the Civil War by selling quilts to raise funds in both the North and South, while the northern “Sanitary Commission” […]
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February is the month for giving and receiving expressions of love. Mothers, fathers, friends and dear ones all given love tokens in a variety of shapes, sizes, colors, mediums, and all-important flavors of chocolate.I have always considered quilts to be among the greatest expression of love but only recently have I fully appreciated the depth […]
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In 2002, I visited my godmother “Aunt Jackie” in Manhattan. She was always quick with ideas for things do, and knowing I enjoyed quilts, she told me to go straight to the Whitney to see the incredible new quilt exhibit. It was The Quilts of Gee’s Bend. The only other quilt exhibit I’d seen was […]
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Announcing our Guest Blogger series! Each month, “Why Quilts Matter: History, Art & Politics” will feature specially invited guest bloggers who will talk about some topics related to the series that are of interest to them. Our January guest blogger is Bill Volckening, a well-known quilt collector of both antique and contemporary quilts. * * […]
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