![]() ![]() Julia Bryan-Wilson on Gender, Politics, and Textilesĭialogue + Studio: Bookbinding with Combat PaperĬritical Walk-through: Katherine Knauer on the Politics of Quiltingįamilies and Folk Art: Inspiring Intarsiaįamilies and Folk Art: Pattern, Shapes, and Symbols The exhibition will be presented by the International Quilt Study Center & Museum, University of Lincoln–Nebraska from May 25–September 16, 2018. The 240-page publication Wartime Quilts: Appliqués and Geometric Masterpieces from Military Fabrics (The Beagle Press, 2015) accompanies the exhibition and will be available through the American Folk Art Museum Shop beginning in September 2017. ![]() Annette Gero, with additional examples from public and private collections, many never before on view. The quilts are drawn primarily from the unparalleled collection of internationally acclaimed quilt authority Dr. The visual virtuosity of the quilts, often incorporating many thousands of pieces no larger than one-inch square, assumes a deeper emotional resonance as we consider them within the matrix of war and its aftermath. The exhibition further relates these military quilts to an earlier technique of pictorial inlaid or intarsia quilts, made with felted wools during the Prussian and Napoleonic wars beginning in the mid-eighteenth century. Once termed “soldiers’ quilts” or “convalescent quilts,” the pieced textiles are most closely associated with the Crimean War as well as conflicts in India, South Africa, and other troubled regions of the British Empire during the nineteenth century. War and Pieced is the first exhibition in the United States to showcase the spectacularly complex geometric quilts made exclusively by men using richly dyed wools derived from British military and dress uniforms. ![]() Hollander, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, Chief Curator, and Director of Exhibitions at the American Folk Art Museum. Annette Gero, international quilt historian, author, and collector, and Stacy C. Organized by the American Folk Art Museum, New York, in collaboration with the International Quilt Study Center & Museum, University of Lincoln–Nebraska. Exhibition At the American Folk Art Museum ![]()
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