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Embroidery is a folk art that tells us about our past, and McLean County Museum of History has quilts with a lot to say.
Nancy Baker has one of the wittiest and most serious post-modern minds in Raleigh. On the walls of her Tire Shop, in beautifully painted replicas of 15th and 16th century illuminated manuscripts ...
Crazy quilts were extremely popular after the Civil War. Patched from scraps of clothing, they're vintage personalized blankets.
Crazy Quilting And what is life? A crazy quilt; Sorrow and joy, and grace and guilt, With here and there a square of blue For some old happiness we knew; And so the hand of time will take The ...
Quilting as a Radical Act: An Exhibition Examines the Art Form’s Revolutionary Impact A new exhibition delves into the history of quiltmaking in America, revealing how the traditional art has ...
Curator Stacy C. Hollander talks to NYC-ARTS about the work "Crazy Quilt" by Clara Leon, which is in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum.
It has been one challenge after the next over the past few years for Cherryville quilt artists Dale Weibley and Mary Beth Gower, but the biggest is yet to come. They’ve accepted the challenge of ...
His cheerfully scratchy, crazy-quilt compositions of bicycle handlebars, Coke bottles and girls in garter belts owe a good deal to Klee and Dubuffet. Ikeda’s subject matter is decidedly pop ...
Many have painted barn quilts on their own or with others. Todd Moe stopped by to talk with some of the Barn Quilt artists, including Dale Rexford, who hosted the gathering at his place.