The series has aired on a limited number of PBS stations over the years. Consult your local listings for the PBS scheduled airings of Why Quilts Matter: History, Art & Politics.
Why Quilts Matter: History, Art & Politics is airing on KETKY
from April 11, 2013 to August 8, 2013.
Why Quilts Matter: History, Art & Politics aired on Kentucky Educational Television (KET2)
through October 2012.
Resources
Welcome to our exclusive set of Image Resource Guides (IRG), an encyclopedic online downloadable reference repository housing information about each image seen in every episode of Why Quilts Matter: History, Art & Politics, a nine-part documentary series.
This complete catalogue is ideal for instructors in the classroom, art lovers and quilt lovers alike, and the uninitiated viewer. It is the first-of-its-kind, complete catalogue of all of the quilts and photographs featured in each of the nine episodes.
Download them to your iPad or laptop or print them out and follow along as you watch each episode. Simply click the links listed below.
Image Resource Guides
Episode 1 – Quilts 101: Antique & Contemporary
Episode 2 – Quilts Bring History Alive
Episode 3 – The Quilt Marketplace
Episode 5 – Gee’s Bend: “The Most Famous Quilts in America?”
Episode 6 – How Quilts have been Viewed and Collected
Episode 7 – Empowering Women One Quilt at a Time
