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The New York Quilt Project, 1988-1991

The outstanding Rising Star Variation Quilton view in Recent Gifts is a striking textile that came to light in the early 1990s as part of the New York Quilt Project, an effort organized by the American Folk Art Museum in which more than six thousand quilts made before 1940 were documented. Forty-five “quilt days” were held throughout the state over a twenty-one month period, and the project culminated with a fine exhibition, “New York Beauties: Quilts from New York State,” with catalog.

Lee Kogan, curator emerita, will talk about the surprising results from tabulated questionnaires, photographs, and taped personal interviews, as well as museum archives study and examination of the quilts themselves, which revealed a few regional characteristics and important elements of New York’s social history tied to several contexts and motivations—community, religion, politics, education, technology, aesthetics, gender, and identity.











When: Wed., Aug. 21, 2013 at 6:00 pm
Where: American Folk Art Museum
2 Lincoln Square
212-595-9533
Price: Free
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The outstanding Rising Star Variation Quilton view in Recent Gifts is a striking textile that came to light in the early 1990s as part of the New York Quilt Project, an effort organized by the American Folk Art Museum in which more than six thousand quilts made before 1940 were documented. Forty-five “quilt days” were held throughout the state over a twenty-one month period, and the project culminated with a fine exhibition, “New York Beauties: Quilts from New York State,” with catalog.

Lee Kogan, curator emerita, will talk about the surprising results from tabulated questionnaires, photographs, and taped personal interviews, as well as museum archives study and examination of the quilts themselves, which revealed a few regional characteristics and important elements of New York’s social history tied to several contexts and motivations—community, religion, politics, education, technology, aesthetics, gender, and identity.

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