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2008 Area Quilting Events
| July 24 -27 August 1-3 Sept 4-7 Sept 14 - Dec 7through October 9 |
Quilt Odyssey Hershey Convention Center, Hershey, PA Thursday-Saturday ~ 10am - 6pm Sunday ~ 10am - 4pm Admission -$8.00 per day www.quiltodyssey.com Art From The Heart IV Presented by the Quilt Company East Community College of Allegheny County Boyce Campus, Monroeville, PA. Fri -Sat, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sunday: 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Admission: $5.00 Featured quilter: Marilyn Doheny. Classes offered. See: www.quiltcoeast.org Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravanganza Expo Hall of Pennsyvania Farm Show Complex Harrisburg, PA Thurs- Sat 10 am- 6pm, Sun 10:00 am- 4:00pm www.quiltfest.com Women’s Work? Two Exhibitions Looking at Women’s Bodies of/as Work will bring together 19th century quilts from the collection of well-known collector Judy Roche, with the textile and body-based works of contemporary artists Tamar Stone and Christine LoFaso. Working Women: Quilts from the Judy Roche Collection will showcase the exuberant and often virtuosic intricacies of what we think of traditionally as mundane icons of women’s work. Accounts such as Alice Walker’s story “Everyday Use” remind us that quilts have come to serve as metaphors or visual vehicles for the histories of women’s lives, their habitation in the domestic sphere, their creativity and sense of community. Many of the quilts in the exhibit were sewn in Pennsylvania. Tamar Stone and Christine LoFaso: Women’s Bodies of/as Work may prompt viewers to recontextualize what they see in the quilt exhibition by reconsidering the implications of women’s association with the artifacts of domesticity. Both artists focus on the intersections of fabric, fabrication and the body in their work, reflecting on historical material and conventions as a way of reforming our perceptions of them. Berman Art Museum, Ursinus College Collegeville Open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Friday; noon to 4:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, and closed Mondays and college holidays. For more info: 610-409-3500 www.ursinus.edu Special Exhibition: Just Sew! Clinton Quilts: 1860 to Today RED MILL MUSEUM VILLAGE 56 Main Street, Clinton, New Jersey 08809 908-735-4101 http://www.theredmill.org Tomson Gallery, Second Floor, Red Mill A handmade quilt is a satisfying creation of color and warmth to wrap around one's loved ones. The quilts on view are local Clinton quilts, made by everyday women for their families. They used the fabric that was at hand. At first, it was homespun. Later they bought fabric, reused old clothes, and recycled flour and feed sacks. Some of these well-used quilts have tales we can deduce from their fabric and wear patterns; others have back stories that have been passed down via friends or family. Today quilts are made for the same, age-old reasons. In this exhibit, local quilters, inspired by the traditional quilts on view, have reproduced old patterns with modern fabrics, both reproduction and contemporary. |
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Patchwork Politics: 13 West King Street, Lancaster, PA 17603 www.lancasterheritage.com An outstanding exhibition of quilts, clothing and memoribilia made to commemorate America's Presidential campaigns. From the days of the Early Republic to the modern era, come and see this exceptional private collection of American political history. |
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