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Exhibits to celebrate contemporary quilters
“QuiltVoices,” an exhibition featuring the work of 25 contemporary quilters from throughout the U.S., will open Friday, Sept. 9, at the University Gallery. The Historical Society of Delaware opens a new exhibition, “Quilt Stories by Teresa Barkley,” featuring the quilts of UD alumna Teresa Barkley on Friday, Sept. 23, at the Delaware History Museum in Wilmington. In 1999, recognizing the fragility of the bonds between quilters and their quilts, The Alliance for American Quilts, a nonprofit organization, in partnership with the Center for Material Culture Studies at UD, initiated Quilters’ Save Our Stories (QSOS). The mission of the alliance is to bring together institutions and individuals from creative, scholarly and business to advance the recognition of quilts in American culture using state-of-the-art technology. QSOS’s mission is to record, preserve and share the stories of quiltmakers and their quilts at the Center for the Quilt Online [www.centerforthequilt.org]. “QuiltVoices” draws on the QSOS project. Excerpts from these interviews will be featured in the text accompanying the 25 quilts on view. A brochure also will be available. Madge Ziegler, Juanita Yeager, Katharine Brainard, Adrienne Yorinks, Ellen Kochanszky and Jean Ray Laury are among the artists whose works and stories will be represented. The exhibition also gives special attention to the works of Barkley and quiltmakers from Delaware, including Edna Kotrola, Celeste Kelly and Arlene Favreau Psyher. Two quilts from Gee’s Bend, a small rural community southwest of Selma, Ala., also will be on view. Gallery talks, a quilting bee and a symposium will take place in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, visit [www.museums.udel.edu]. The exhibition at UD will run from Sept. 9-Dec. 9, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, from 11 a.m.-4 p.m., from 11 a.m.-8 p.m., Wednesdays, and from 1-4 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays. The public is invited to a reception for the UD exhibition from 5-7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 16, in Old College. For more information, visit [www.museums.udel.edu]. The Historical Society of Delaware exhibition, “Quilt Stories by Teresa Barkley,” will be on display from Sept. 23-Dec. 31. The exhibition spans 30 years of Barkley’s work and features more than 40 quilts she designed and made. Born in Nebraska and raised in Delaware, Barkley began sewing at age 5 and completed her first quilt by age 15. That quilt was first exhibited at the Delaware State Fair, where it won a blue ribbon and launched her lifelong passion for quilt-making. She studied fashion and textiles at UD and later became a patternmaker in New York City’s Garment Center. Barkley’s quilts show a number of influences that have become her trademark style: scrapbooks, collage, use of vintage fabrics, found objects and materials not usually thought of in quilting, such as clothing tags and fabric bags used by banks. All her quilts are narrative in nature, either telling a specific story, commenting on an American value or situation or commemorating a particular event. In addition to her finished quilts, the exhibit also will include objects representing Barkley’s artistic life, such as ribbons won at the state fair, family scrapbooks that inspired her, early unfinished quilts, samples of her collection of vintage and found materials and at least one “work in progress.” Barkley will present several public programs, including a slide lecture on Thursday, Oct. 6, and Saturday gallery talks on Oct. 8 and Nov. 12. The Historical Society of Delaware exhibition is located at the Delaware History Museum, 504 Market St., Wilmington. Hours are noon-4 p.m., Mondays through Fridays, and 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturdays. Admission is $4 for adults, $3 for seniors and students, and $2 for children 2-18. There is no charge for children under 2. For more information visit [www.hsd.org] or call (302) 655-7161. To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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