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June 5, 2019 by Susan Isaacs

Twentieth annual ‘5 into 1’ exhibit highlights grads of five local art colleges and universities

…stand atop lamp tables, suggesting the domestic. Emilie Patton (Tyler) in “A Quilt for the Grandparents,” incorporates portraits of family and heritage, employing traditional quilting techniques and including quite naturalistic…

October 13, 2018 by Michael Lieberman

Piece Together, The Quilts of Mary Lee Bendolph at Swarthmore’s List Gallery

…her wonderful quilts. Quilting also served as a force of unification in the community. The women of Gee’s Bend came together to make their quilts. They worked together, sang together,…

September 10, 2017 by Roberta

Researcher in Lyme, NY. needs your assistance; PHL Assembled opens at the Perelman Building; Fabric Row art+history tour, Brandywine Workshop and Archives reopens, plus Opportunities from Cue Art and Artist Campaign School!

…thread. Machine sewing, machine quilting (stitching in the ditch), hand stitched finishing. Digital Imaging: Dye sublimation transfer process, Printer – Epson Surecolor F6022. “What did Kensington look like in the…

April 9, 2017 by Ilana Napoli

Loving Blackness at Asian Arts Initiative, a complex exhibition about color

…immigrants and have retained the quilting tradition. This is a thriving practice of a black community nearly unknown to the outside world. The colorful patchwork quilts are mainly made from…

June 14, 2016 by Roberta

Congratulations 2016 Pew Fellows + Organizations – Sharon Hayes, Tiona McClodden, Erin Bernard, Kelsey Halliday Johnson, Monument Lab, Temple Contemporary, ICA, PMA, Barnes! Plus Brandywine Workshop Happy Hours with the Arts, In/Out Symposium at Moore and Opportunities

…as quilting would be. In colonial times in the New World laws prohibited Africans from wearing fine fabrics such as silk and cotton. Social differences were declared by material and…

March 13, 2015 by Kitty Caparella

13 quilts by the Needle and Gun Club at the Barnes Museum

[Kitty admires the many skills of three female FBI agents who discovered quilting, and who have translated their medium to replicating Impressionist artworks. — the Artblog editors] You’d think that…

July 23, 2014 by Kelly

‘Murica! at PhilaMOCA

…Thomas Kelly, “Stars & Crosses,” 48-star flag with quilting thread and white linen. Over each star in his “Stars & Crosses,” Thomas Kelly has embroidered a cross that is invisible…

April 27, 2013 by Maegan Arthurs

Vibrant Impressions in “Intimacies of India” at the Rosenfeld Gallery

…a brightly painted backdrop and reminded me of an elephant. Repeated designs suggestive of Sari prints are dotted over the scene and nicely reference the traditions of quilting and tapestry….