Past Exhibitions

Past Exhibitions

These exhibitions may be viewed online at the following links:

• "Yvonne Wells: Quilted Messages"

  (October 7, 2011 - February 26, 2012)

• "Elegant Geometry:American and British Mosaic Patchwork"

  (May 28, 2011 - January 8, 2012)

• "Nebraska Quilts and Quiltmakers"

  (April 8 - October 2011)

• "Revisiting the Art Quilt"

  (December 17, 2010 - April 3, 2011)

• "Marseille: White Corded Quilting"

  "Marseille: White Corded Quilting"

• "South Asian Seams: Quilts from India, Pakistan, & Bangladesh"

  (May 15 - November 7, 2010)

• "Quilts Under the Microscope"

  (April 2 - November 1, 2010)

• "Perspectives: Art, Craft, Design, & the Studio Quilt"

  (November 21, 2009 - May 9, 2010)

• "A Fairyland of Fabrics: The Victorian Crazy Quilt"

  (July 24 - October 25, 2009)

• "American Quilts in the Modern Age, 1870 - 1940"

  (May 23 - Nov. 15, 2009)

• "Grace Snyder: A Life in Extraordinary Stitches"

  (April 10 - June 14, 2009)

• "Chintz Applique Quilts: From Imitation to Icon"

  (Nov. 22, 2008 - May 17, 2009)

• "Quilts in Common"

  (October 10, 2008 -January 11, 2009)

• "Pojagi: Patchwork and Quilts from Korea"

  (August 23 - November 16, 2008)

• "Visual Systems: The Quilter's Eye"

  (July 9 - September 25, 2008)

• "Design Dynamics of Log Cabin Quilts: Selections from the Jonathan Holstein Collection"

  (May 28, 2004 - August 31, 2004)

• "Wild by Design"

  (February 14 - March 31, 2003)

To view images of quilts in the following exhibitions visit the Collections Database and search by Exhibition name.

• "Yikes Stripes"

  (January 16 - April 15, 2009)

• "Nancy Crow: Cloth, Culture, Context"

  (March 30 – August 31, 2008)

• "Recycling and Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s"

  (July 2 - August 31, 2007)

• "Reading, Writing and a Rhythmic Stitch: Doll Quilts from the Mary Ghormley Collection"

  (October 6, 2006 - March 18, 2007)

• "Snail Trails, Broken Dishes, and a Streak of Lightning"

  (September 11 - 30, 2006)

• "Perfecting the Past: Colonial Revival Quilts"

  (May 30 - September 1, 2006)

• "Partisan Pieces: Quilts of Political and Patriotic Persuasion"

  (June 3 - August 30, 2005)

• "The Collector's Eye: Amish Quilts from the International Quilt Study Center Collection"

  (February 26 - August 7, 2005)

• "Patchwork Lives"

  (April 2, 2004 - May 31, 2006)

• "Indigo Gives America the Blues"

  (December 5, 2003 - February 29, 2004)

• "Modern Marvels: Quilts Made from Kits, 1915-1950"

  (May 30 - August 29, 2003)

• "At the Crossing: Midwestern Amish Crib Quilts and the Intersection of Cultures"

  (February 14, 2003 - February 15, 2004)

• "Scarlet and Cream"

  (June 10 - September 2, 2002)

• "Fanciful Flowers: Botany and the American Quilt"

  (February 19, 1999 - March 19, 2001)

• "Reflections of the Exotic East in American Quilts" (September 16 - December 16, 2001)