#quiltingnews — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #quiltingnews, aggregated by home.social.
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Airing tomorrow (June 7) at 6pm on #KPBS here in #SanDiego
(It seems to be streaming if you have Passport or check your local PBS station, I’ve seen ads for it in various other US cities)
The Quilting Women of Gee’s Bend
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2025/06/06/the-quilting-women-of-gees-bend
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Airing tomorrow (June 7) at 6pm on #KPBS here in #SanDiego
(It seems to be streaming if you have Passport or check your local PBS station, I’ve seen ads for it in various other US cities)
The Quilting Women of Gee’s Bend
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2025/06/06/the-quilting-women-of-gees-bend
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Airing tomorrow (June 7) at 6pm on #KPBS here in #SanDiego
(It seems to be streaming if you have Passport or check your local PBS station, I’ve seen ads for it in various other US cities)
The Quilting Women of Gee’s Bend
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2025/06/06/the-quilting-women-of-gees-bend
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Airing tomorrow (June 7) at 6pm on #KPBS here in #SanDiego
(It seems to be streaming if you have Passport or check your local PBS station, I’ve seen ads for it in various other US cities)
The Quilting Women of Gee’s Bend
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2025/06/06/the-quilting-women-of-gees-bend
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That group of quilters out of Utah making protest quilts to send to their elected officials is still going strong! Looks like on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, the group will be hosting a national quilt-in event in Washington, D.C., near the National Mall and Capitol building
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Really am looking forward to The Quilters movie premiere
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Another Paducah blog post, the photos aren’t as good, but there are more of them -
https://thenotsodramaticlife.com/a-show-so-much-more-a-quick-look-at-quilt-week-paducah-2025/
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Another Paducah blog post, the photos aren’t as good, but there are more of them -
https://thenotsodramaticlife.com/a-show-so-much-more-a-quick-look-at-quilt-week-paducah-2025/
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Another Paducah blog post, the photos aren’t as good, but there are more of them -
https://thenotsodramaticlife.com/a-show-so-much-more-a-quick-look-at-quilt-week-paducah-2025/
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Another Paducah blog post, the photos aren’t as good, but there are more of them -
https://thenotsodramaticlife.com/a-show-so-much-more-a-quick-look-at-quilt-week-paducah-2025/
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Another Paducah blog post, the photos aren’t as good, but there are more of them -
https://thenotsodramaticlife.com/a-show-so-much-more-a-quick-look-at-quilt-week-paducah-2025/
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That The Nation has what appears to be an in-house quilter continues to tickle me. Really love Sylvia Hernandez' most recent quilt honoring John Lewis - the VOTE snowflake is very cool
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/john-lewis-american-wisdom/
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Another story about the Without a Net exhibit of 3-D quilts at the International Quilt Museum - I found this one more engaging about the artist’s motives for what she does and there’s more (and better) pics
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At first I thought these were Bisa Butler quilts, but they aren’t — they’re Eugene Poole Jr. quilts and they are amazing!
I know the history of Black jockeys comes up around Derby time every year, but what this man is creating to celebrate their legacy is incredible
https://www.lpm.org/news/2025-04-17/quilts-show-black-kentucky-derby-jockeys-in-full-color-and-scale
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Go get ‘em, Mary Sue!
How Trump Infuriated America’s Quilters and Crafters
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2025/apr/14/how-trump-infuriated-americas-quilters-and-crafter/
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I like posting #QuiltingNews and museum/gallery shows. It's usually fun for me. But I have mixed feelings about posting this article and the link to the show. The idea of quilts made during war by military men is interesting, but this particular exhibit feels celebratory of colonialism
Knowing about quilting's unsavory past is important, but am I raising awareness or hiding that past behind the cool quilts?
Article:
https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2025/04/annette-geros-show-in-australia.htmlExhibit:
https://www.cairnsartgallery.com.au/whats-on/exhibitions/war-quilts -
I think this is the second quilt craftivism out of Utah I’ve seen recently —
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This article describes a new exhibit at IQM that features mechanized, sculpted quilts. The idea of a quilt that moves is fascinating to me - the museum director says they’ve shown several before but it’s nothing I’ve ever heard of (there's a very brief video in the story)
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I love how Karen Nyberg continues to marry both her passions - quilting and space
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Quilt activism 🏳️⚧️ in the news -
"Who would you be if you had the freedom to live into the fullness of who you are?
That’s the question a new art installation put to transgender and nonbinary Americans across the country, asking them to weave all their joys, frustrations and hopes into more than 250 panels that will form a massive quilt"
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/us/gallery/trans-visibility-freedom-to-be-quilt/index.html
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There've been a lot of articles about the Gee's Bend Airing of the Quilts exhibit lately, but I like how this one focuses on letting a single quilter, Mary Lee Bendolph, speak
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The quilters of Gee's Bend have been named one of Adidas’ 2025 Honoring Black Excellence (HBS) winners, with the company issuing a limited-edition collection of NCAA jerseys based on their work
Lots of recent coverage, though I didn't find good close ups of all the jerseys (yet) --
https://www.contrabandcamp.com/p/parable-of-the-sewers
https://www.essence.com/lifestyle/gees-bend-quiltmakers/
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First heard about this quilter recently, but here's a more in-depth story about Sunshine Joe
His sewing origin story is delightful
https://ket.org/program/inside-louisville/quilting-with-sunshine-joe/
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Greenville NC exhibit of quilts honoring the children killed at Uvalde - not many photos of the quilts, but a nice piece explaining the artist Jo-Ann Morgan’s work
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Video about Gary Tyler, a quilter incarcerated for 42 years for a crime he did not commit
https://www.nbcmiami.com/on-air/as-seen-on/voices-reclaiming-his-time-one-quilt-at-a-time/3555669/
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Bad day for art news under America’s fascist regime. This is the second article I’ve posted, two completely different problems — censorship this time
Nothing unscathed
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/01/art-museum-of-americas-exhibit-trump-dei
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I mentioned Art in Embassies just yesterday, noting how much it had done to the raise the profiles of many Black American quilters
The article looks at whether the program is or isn’t still buying art given government cutbacks in foreign aid. Like everything right now, it’s a fucking mess
There really isn’t anything escaping this administration’s clutches unscathed
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New exhibit featuring Black American quilters at the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, “We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists”
Some of these artists were featured in #CelebrateBlackQuilters this year but it looks like I have a bunch of new names to research for #BlackHistoryMonth 2026!
Exhibit:
https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/black-women-quilters
Related article:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/from-the-antebellum-south-to-the-civil-rights-movement-black-american-women-have-long-told-their-stories-through-quilts-180986106/ -
Stolen quilt returned! Love a happy ending
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QuiltCon 2025 winners!
Usually, I’m a little iffy on the Best in Show, there’s always one or more others that I would have chosen
But this time, I opened this website and was “Yep, I don’t even have to see anything else. That’s obviously the Best in Show”
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CW: Forced Sterilization (quilt related tho)
Demoralized by politicians slow-walking compensation for the nearly 600 people who underwent forced sterilization in California before it became illegal (in 2013!) the California Coalition of Women Prisoners coordinated a quilting project to bring attention to the issue
Each block of "Together We Rise! Together We Heal!" was created by a survivor; activist Linda Evans stitched them together
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Remember how AQS refused to show a quilt related to abortion access and SAQA pulled all their quilts from AQS exhibits in protest?
Marrianne Fons reports that the International Quilt Museum acquired that quilt for their permanent collection!
My original toot:
https://mastodon.art/@inarticulatequilter/113989199840425258Fons' blog post:
https://mariannefons.substack.com/p/a-quiltropolitan-hits-the-con“Your Mother. Your Daughter. Your Sister. Your Grandmother. You”
Cotton, vintage and thrifted fabrics
82 x 82 inches
Laura Shaw -
There’s more than one way to protest with quilts —
https://diva-magazine.com/2025/02/12/how-queer-quilts-can-acts-as-archives-of-trans-joy/
Hat tip to @Researchbuzz for the original post
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More quilt based protests!
This time in Norman, OK. I love how they didn't even get the quilt finished, they're just "fuck it, desperate times call for unbound protest quilts!"
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The American Quilt Society refuses to include 2 quilts from SAQA in a show so SAQA pulls ALL their quilts from AQS exhibits
The first quilt could be considered a vagina, the second was abortion-related
Fuck AQS
✊🏻 Studio Art Quilt Association
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My #CelebrateBlackQuilters posts have covered mostly African-American quilters because it's #BlackHistoryMonth in the US. But I came across this article on Black Canadian quilters in my research that doesn't quite fit the thread, but was really interesting, as well
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Well, now they've done it - they've pissed off the quilters!
Quilt-In Held in Provo UT
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The Atlanta Quilt Festival celebrated the life and legacy of Congressman John Lewis this year with an exhibit called 'Good Trouble Quilts' -- so many quilts honoring him! Every quilter in Atlanta must have made one
Kenneth Zakee's is my favorite (the last one), but I'm excited that Elaine Foster's Zipping Up Racism has a similar zipper idea to the quilt I'm currently working on - it's possible!
https://www.atlantaquiltfestival.com/portfolio/%22good-trouble-quilts%22