{"id":715,"date":"2011-08-02T13:14:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T13:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/?p=715"},"modified":"2023-10-06T17:20:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T17:20:05","slug":"why-quilts-matter-history-art-politics-website-is-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/news\/why-quilts-matter-history-art-politics-website-is-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Quilts Matter: History, Art &#038; Politics Website is Launched!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Kentucky Quilt Project, Inc.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/the-kentucky-quilt-project\/\">The Kentucky Quilt Project, Inc.<\/a>, is proud to present the launch of the <em>Why Quilts Matter: History, Art &amp; Politics<\/em> website.<\/p>\n<p><em>Why Quilts Matter: History, Art &amp; Politics<\/em> is a nine-part documentary series that takes a fresh look at quilts and spreads the word about their unique position at the center of a startlingly broad grid of topics, ranging from women\u2019s studies to the contemporary art market.<\/p>\n<p><em>Why Quilts Matter: History, Art &amp; Politics<\/em> is coming to PBS stations this fall, and is available on DVD in August 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u2192\u00a0Read more about the <a title=\"About the Series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/the-series\/\"><em>Why Quilts Matter: History, Art &amp; Politics <\/em>Documentary Series<\/a> and <a title=\"The Kentucky Quilt Project, Inc.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/the-kentucky-quilt-project\/\">The Kentucky Quilt Project, Inc<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kentucky Quilt Project, Inc., is proud to present the launch of the Why Quilts Matter: History, Art &amp; Politics website. Why Quilts Matter: History, Art &amp; Politics is a nine-part documentary series that takes a fresh look at quilts and spreads the word about their unique position at the center of a startlingly broad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6562,"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/6562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}