Congratulations to Rita Shurmer! She is our lucky winner who will receive two (2) tickets to the Heart of Country Antiques Show (Feb 2-4, 2012), including access to the exclusive preview party on Feb 2! For more information about the Show and the Preview Party, please visit the Heart of Country website. “Heart of […]
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Published on Education Media Reviews Online (EMRO), Jan 10, 2012 Reviewed by Winifred Fordham Metz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Lori Widzinski, University Libraries, University at Buffalo, State University of New York Shelly Zegart, a known expert on antique and contemporary quilts, has collected, curated, lectured and written about quilts for over […]
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We are excited to announce our partnership with The Quilt Show. They are actively promoting the series from now through the end of March 2012, so be sure to watch for “Why Quilts Matter: History, Art & Politics” on their website and in their newsletter. Ricky Tims is in several of the “Why Quilts Matter” […]
Read moreOne lucky winner will receive two (2) tickets to the Heart of Country Antiques Show (Feb 2-4, 2012), including access to the exclusive preview party on Feb 2, a value of $120! For more information about the Show and the Preview Party, please visit the Heart of Country website. Registration for drawing ends on Jan 28th, […]
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Announcing our Guest Blogger series! Each month, “Why Quilts Matter: History, Art & Politics” will feature specially invited guest bloggers who will talk about some topics related to the series that are of interest to them. Our January guest blogger is Bill Volckening, a well-known quilt collector of both antique and contemporary quilts. * * […]
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By Sherida Warner, January 7, 2012 Originally published at GJSentinel Though she’s never pieced together a patchwork quilt of her own, Shelly Zegart of Louisville, Ky., is an expert on the role that quilts play in American culture. As a dealer, appraiser and collector of quilts since the mid-1970s, Zegart’s personal collection hangs in the […]
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We’re thrilled to be featured in the recent issue of Video Librarian: The Video Review Magazine for Libraries, where the series received “3 out of 4 stars” and a “Recommended” rating. We’ve already received requests to carry the DVD from libraries, and along with this review and the recent review in Booklist, we hope to reach even more. Our goal is to continue to spread the conversation about the importance of quilts and to make the series accessible to everyone. You can help us along by placing a request at your local library for the series!
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For all you Amazon fans you can now purchase Why Quilts Matter on Amazon.com. The series will still be sold through the Why Quilts Matter website and in select stores across the country. You’ll want to stop by the Why Quilts Matter site soon as we’ll be launching some exciting new features. Stay tuned! If […]
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What matters to historians, artists, politicians, anthropologists, collectors, curators, scholars, ordinary folks, small children and, yes, to the people who make them? Quilts, that’s what, and if you don’t see how all these people could be involved, the nine-part television documentary series Why Quilts Matter: History, Art & Politics will supply the answers. The series […]
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We were thrilled to host Yukako Fukushi, a staff writer in the lifestyle department of the newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun. With a circulation of more than 10,000,000, it is the largest newspaper in Japan and one of the largest in the world. Yukako was in Louisville for several days to do interviews for a two-page article […]
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On Saturday, November 19, 2011, we had a great panel discussion following the screening of “Why Quilts Matter: History, Art & Politics” Episode 2 – “Quilts Bring History Alive” at the Newark Museum in Newark, NJ. Ulysses Dietz, the Decorative Arts Curator, gave us a tour of their quilt exhibition, Patchwork: From Folk Art to Fine […]
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If you own a handmade quilt, you may think you know why quilts matter. But it’s a guarantee that you don’t know everything about the history and culture of quilts, as revealed in this passionate nine-part documentary. In the sampled Empowering Women One Quilt at a Time, host Shelly Zegart—author of American Quilt Collections (1998)—introduces […]
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It’s obvious we’re big fans of Why Quilts Matter: History, Art & Politics, but don’t just take our word for it. Check out some recent reviews: The latest one is from the BooklistOnline, written by Eloise Kinney: “If you own a handmade quilt, you may think you know why quilts matter. But it’s a guarantee […]
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Art: The Quilt Lady knows best A look at the documentary series “Why Quilts Matter” BY JO ANNE TRIPLETT Shelly Zegart is known around these parts as “The Quilt Lady.” As a founding director of The Kentucky Quilt Project and The Alliance for American Quilts, she helped document quilt history and broaden the notion of […]
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A group of quilt and art enthusiasts gathered last Saturday, November 5th, at The Green Building in Louisville, Ky., to discuss quilts – their role in the art world as well as female empowerment. Artist Vadis Turner, who just launched her third solo exhibit in Louisville and is featured throughout Why Quilts Matter: History, Art […]
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