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Thursday, May 20th, 2010

50th Anniversary Open House on Sunday, May 23

American Textile History Museum’s 50th Anniversary Open House

Join us for a day full of fun on Sunday, May 23! View our fantastic exhibits, make some crafts, hang out with Lulu the Lamb, have some cake, and celebrate our 50th Anniversary! Free admission all day from 10am-5pm, so make sure to bring a friend. See you on Sunday!

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Monday, May 10th, 2010

June 16th, join Remick Museum and Farm for special opening ceremony for the newest exhibit, Art of Homesteading

May 5, 2010-Tamworth, NH – On June 16th, the Remick Country Doctor Museum and Farm will commemorate the opening of a brand new exhibit, Art of Homesteading; with a special ceremony from 5-7pm.
At 5 pm, join us as we cut the ribbon! Later, our staff will take visitors to visit our newest farm animals. At 6 pm, join us for buy online viagra as we take you behind the scenes of the making of the Art of Homesteading exhibit.

The Art of Homesteading exhibit came about after a wonderful donation from Bob Temple of Jackson and Joe Parks of Dover, NH. Due to their in-kind donations, we had the tools to work towards a brand new exhibit. This exhibit could not have been created without the support of a grant received from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and our wonderful sponsors!

We welcome you to join us as we commemorate the Art of Homesteading. This exhibit illustrates the history of homesteading, including tools, craftspeople and traditions that helped to build this country and whom have given us the freedoms we enjoy today.

For more information, please call (603) 323-7591 or toll free (800) 686-6117.

The Remick Museum and Farm is located at 58 Cleveland Hill Road in Tamworth Village, easily accessible from Routes 16 and 25. No admission charge from 5-7 pm. Visit us online at. “Explore over 200 years of self-sustained living as we preserve the agricultural way of life in New Hampshire.”

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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

May News from The New England Quilt Museum

Opening Reception for Women’s Writes: Signature Quilts and Their Stories

May 15, 1pm

Join us on May 15 at 1pm for the opening reception for our groundbreaking exhibition on women’s material history, Women’s Writes: Signature Quilts and Their Stories. The curators for the exhibit, NEQM Acting Curator Laura Lane and quilt historian Lorie Chase, have assembled an extensive group of signature quilts, drawn from both the museum’s own permanent collection and borrowed from private collections, to showcase the wide range of actions women in the 19th and early 20th centuries were able to take by combining needle and thread with the power of the pen.

At a time when women did not have the vote, property rights, or occupational opportunities, and were just beginning to have beyond-basic literacy skills, creating signature quilts was a chance at self-expression and self-sufficiency. Frequently made as charity fund-raisers, signature quilts gave women a measure of both political and economic independence, enabling them to fund their favorite social causes entirely on their own. Groups of women raised money for temperance, abolition, church renovations, the Red Cross, and women’s social clubs by raffling off signature quilts. Many women’s groups also signed the quilts they made for troops during the Civil War, often adding patriotic verses to their signatures.

While making signature quilts for political or social causes was a major means of women’s self-expression, many more personal signature quilts were made. These quilts, too, provided a means for women to assert a more active role within their families and communities. The giving of a signature quilt placed women front and center at major family or local events, such as marriages, births, the departure of an important town resident, or the commemoration of a civic event. The more personal quilts provided an even greater chance at expression, and many signers added favorite poems or Bible verses, as well as personal messages to recipients, making signature quilts a unique window into everyday American women’s values. With family quilts making up a large proportion of these works, they are also of significant interest to genealogists.

So important were signature quilts in 19th century American society that by the middle of the century, industry provided stamps to embellish signatures, patterns, sample verses, and calligraphy advice to the nation’s quilt makers. The tradition continues and is still honored today by contemporary quiltmakers.

Women’s Writes will run from May 13 through July 11. Support for this exhibition is provided in part by Mancuso Show Management.

Learn Victorian Inking with Faye Labanaris and Sign Your Quilts with Flair

1-Day Workshop, May 22, 10am – 1pm
With weddings and graduations in full swing, now is the time many quilters are making special quilts as gifts. Label your quilt with a unique heirloom label, featuring the same vintage hand-inking seen on many of the quilts in Women’s Writes! Sign your quilts with confidence and flair! Learn foolproof calligraphy with very little effort, skill, or pain. Create several original design labels for your quilts right in class. Afraid of drawing on your quilt blocks? Learn to use fabric pens with skill and confidence. Create delightful detail on your Baltimore-style blocks. This is a fun class and you’ll discover talents you never knew you had!

Cost: $55 members/$60 non-members; includes all materials. To register, contact the shop at 978-452-4207, ext. 16, or shop@nequiltmuseum.org

Save the Date: Lowell Quilt Festival

This Year’s Dates: August 12 – 14

This year’s Lowell Quilt Festival offers more excitement than ever before. IMAGES, the centerpiece of the Festival, has been moved to a new location, Lowell Memorial Auditorium, and offers so much to see and do, including:

* Award-winning quilts at IMAGES 2010
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* Live Auction of quilts with wine/cheese preview
* Exciting raffles
* Daily “Lunch & Learn” speakers with truck shows (limited space — advance registration recommended)
* Vendor demonstrations
* Top – notch vendor mall for all things fabric and sewing-related
* All proceeds from IMAGES 2010 benefit the New England Quilt Museum

Museums and galleries around town are partnered with the New England Quilt Museum to offer additional exhibits featuring the very best in textile arts. From historic Lowell’s cotton mills to the latest work from contemporary fiber artists, there’s something on view for every interest.

To help visitors see all there is to see, the Festival will offer a FREE HOP-ON/HOP-OFF SHUTTLE connecting parking areas to all participating Festival sites, funded by the City of Lowell.

Visit the Festival website, www.lowellquiltfestival.org for the latest news. Then, come to Lowell this August. You’ll be glad you did!
Book Group, Volunteer Thursdays & NEQM in the Community

Every Thursday, Outreach Program Manager Rhonda Galpern and volunteers meet to work on a variety of quilting projects: they assemble raffle quilts to benefit the museum, organize student projects or finish the quilts begun in local schools, as well as teach small groups the FUNdamentals of quilting. Visitors learn about quiltmaking and the museum’s connections with Lowell schools and community organizations.

Join us for these fun and educational programs!

Community Quilting: May 6, 13, 20, 27, 10am-3pm

Brown Bag Lecture: May 5, 12:30 – 1:30pm: Think Orange: “Quilts for a Cure” Melanoma/Skin Cancer Awareness Month

Book Group: May 20, 12:30 – 1:30pm: The Bishop’s Daughter by Wanda E. Brunstetter
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May 14-15, 2010

Friday 12 noon – 8pm, Saturday 9am – 4pm
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Amoskeag Quilters’ Guild Biennial Quilt Show/Quilt Auction

May 15 – 16
“Coming Home” features a wide array of quilts created by Guild members, including a queen size, patriotic raffle quilt. All raffle quilt proceeds will go to Liberty House, an agency that provides temporary assistance to homeless veterans. Other features of the show include vendors, door prizes, demonstrations, raffle bags, and refreshments. Parking is plentiful, and the venue is handicap accessible.

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Penny Power Campaign Update

The results are in from our first Penny Power campaign. It’s amazing how small change can add up! We emptied one of our two embellished piggies, and there was more than $92 in change in that one little piggy bank! Please continue to help fuel the Museum with Penny Power by disposing of your loose change.

Last summer, the New England Quilt Museum received a Cultural Facilities Matching Grant from Mass Cultural Council and MassDevelopment for $77,000, to be used to address deferred maintenance issues in our historic 1845 building.

Having raised more than $40,000 from the current and past Board of Directors, we are campaigning to raise the remaining $35,000. One of the first projects we are undertaking with our matching grant funds is the upgrade we desperately need for our HVAC system — that’s why we’re turning to you to help fuel the Museum with Penny Power.

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We are also asking every member to consider keeping a jar at home and emptying all your loose change into the jar at the end of the day. Find a spare penny in a pocket or on the sidewalk? Put it in your jar and then bring your jar into the museum to be emptied and tallied in with what we hope will be thousands of other pennies.
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Annual NEQM Members’ Meeting

May 26, 5pm
All members of NEQM are invited to the Museum’s annual member meeting on May 26. Come meet your fellow members, enjoy light refreshments, and hear a special program from the National Park Service! Not a member? Join today! Memberships cost as little as $30 a year, and help support the New England Quilt Museum and all its programs. For membership information and to join online, visit http://www.nequiltmuseum.org/support-us/index.html

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Friday, March 26th, 2010

Currently, there is a quilt exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London that has some folks here, across the pond, hopping the closest airplane to go see it. Part of the exhibit, located in the Renaissance Gallery, is the showing of a quilt rarely seen by the public, the Tristan quilt, sometimes called Tristram or Tristam. In fact, the name has many mutations because it was part of a medieval legend that was carried about Europe by storytellers: the legend of Tristan and Isolde and their star-struck relationship.

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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

The New England Quilt Museum Announces New Exhibition:
Women’s Writes: Signature Quilts and Their Stories
A groundbreaking examination of a vital aspect of women’s material history in the 19th century.
Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich to speak at NEQM in June.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 23, 2010 — The New England Quilt Museum is pleased to announce their groundbreaking exhibition on women’s material history, Women’s Writes: Signature Quilts and Their Stories. The curators for the exhibit, NEQM Acting Curator Laura Lane and quilt historian Lorie Chase, have assembled an extensive group of signature quilts, drawn from both the museum’s own permanent collection and borrowed from private collections to showcase the wide range of actions women in the 19th and early 20th centuries were able to take by combining needle and thread with the power of the pen.

1848 Signature Quilt, photo by Joe Offria

“Snowflake” pattern, signature quilt, 1848. Photo by Joe Offria

At a time when women did not have the vote, property rights, or occupational opportunities, and were just beginning to have beyond-basic literacy skills, creating signature quilts was a chance at self-expression and self-sufficiency. Frequently made as charity fund-raisers, signature quilts gave women a measure of both political and economic independence, enabling them to fund their favorite social causes entirely on their own. Groups of women raised money for temperance, abolition, church renovations, the Red Cross, and women’s social clubs by raffling off signature quilts. Many women’s groups also signed the quilts they made for troops during the Civil War, often adding patriotic verses to their signatures.

While making signature quilts for political or social causes was a major means of women’s self-expression, many more personal signature quilts were made. These quilts, too, provided a means for women to assert a more active role within their families and communities. The giving of a signature quilt placed women front and center at major family or local events, such as marriages, births, the departure of an important town resident, or the commemoration of a civic event. The more personal quilts provided an even greater chance at expression, and many signers added favorite poems or Bible verses, as well as personal messages to recipients, making signature quilts a unique window into everyday American women’s values. With family quilts making up a large proportion of these works, they are also of significant interest to genealogists.

So important were signature quilts in 19th century American society that by the middle of the century, industry provided stamps to embellish signatures, patterns, sample verses, and calligraphy advice to the nation’s quilt makers. The tradition continued into the 20th century, though on a lesser scale, and is still honored today by contemporary quiltmakers.

Women’s Writes will run from May 13 through July 11. The opening reception, with a lecture by Lorie Chase, will be on Saturday, May 15 at 1pm. In addition, on Saturday, May 22, Faye Labanaris will present a workshop on Victorian calligraphy for modern quilts, and on June 5, Ms. Chase will present a workshop on tracing your quilt’s history. Harvard Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author of buy online viagra and buy online viagra will give a lecture on Saturday, June 19th at 1pm. Titled “An American Album Quilt, Utah Territory, 1857: A Case Study in Object-Centered History,” the lecture will examine a single object as a lens into a period in American history.

Support for this exhibition is provided, in part, by Mancuso Show Management.

About the New England Quilt Museum

The New England Quilt Museum, located in Lowell, MA, preserves, interprets, and celebrates American quilting past and present.

Museum hours are 10 AM – 4 PM Tuesday – Saturday; and Sundays 12 – 4 PM: May through October. Admission is $7, $5 for seniors and students, and free for museum members. Two for one admission for WGBH and AAA members. Visit or call 978-452-4207 for more information.

Press release courtesy of Quilter’s Muse Publications, and sent by Christina Inge, the museum’s publicist.

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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

PRESS RELEASE

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Spider Web Crib Quilt, early 20th century. Collection of Sara Miller. Photo by Lisa Bisson

Lowell, MA—December 15, 2009—The New England Quilt Museum is very excited to announce their first exhibition of the 2010 season, Bettina Havig’s “Kinder Komforts: Amish Crib Quilts.” This exhibition will bring together many of the most remarkable examples of Amish quilting, all the more exquisite for their small dimensions.

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“Kinder Komforts: Amish Crib Quilts” runs from March 4 through May 9, 2010. An opening reception on March 6 at 1 p.m. will feature a lecture on the Amish lifestyle and its intimate connection to quilting by guest curator Bettina Havig, an internationally-renowned quilt expert and author. In addition, quilt historian Gerald Roy will give a talk on the Amish use of color in conjunction with the exhibition on April 17, 2010 at 1 p.m.

During the exhibit, the museum will feature, in its permanent collection rooms, the work of Dorothy Bosselman. The late artist set out to re-create 60 historical Amish quilts, most dating from the early 20th century, in miniature. Her reproduction quilts, most of them no larger than 6” square, were recently acquired by the museum and will be exhibited for the first time in 20 years.

Support for this exhibition is provided in part by A Quilters’ Gathering/Eastcoast Quilters’ Alliance LLC.

About the New England Quilt Museum

The New England Quilt Museum, located at 18 Shattuck St., Lowell, MA, preserves, interprets, and celebrates American quilting past and present. Museum hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday; and Sundays 12-4 p.m., May through October. Closed January 1–18, 2010.

Admission is $7 for adults, $5 for students/senior citizens; Museum members are admitted free.
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Fairbanks Museum

Being a New Hampshire-ite, I never heard much about St. Johnsbury, Vermont except that my Aunt Mabel Grace once taught music there, and that her sister, Virginia, and her mother (my grandmother), lived there at that time. My father and mother would visit, by all accounts, but that was before my time, as I was not here until the 1950s. When Jim suggested a trip to a museum I had never heard of before, I raised one eyebrow, wondering if it would be worth the trip. Today, we traveled up the road, past evergreens cloaked in white, and lifeless branches to which ice was clinging. In the historic area of St. Johnsbury, flanked by antique homes, is a remarkable museum that first opened its door in 1891.

A large brick building, crafted in Romanesque style, the museum was built in 1889, and occupies three levels. On the first level, glass cases hold examples of taxidermically-stuffed birds and wildlife. There are more than 3,800 birds. For the first time ever, I was able to see a Raven standing next to two Crows. I am amazed at how much larger a Raven is than the largest of Black Crows. As I viewed the many types of Owls, I wondered which ones had been chosen by those Victorian artists who added owls to so many of the designs for Redwork. Many species of Hummingbirds are represented, and I particularly liked the family of Opossums. The bull moose and the bison are both huge animals! Examples of various kinds of Bears, as well as many smaller animals have been collected. On the first level, right now, there is an exhibit of worldwide instruments.

If one climbs a narrow, winding stairwell, intriguing exhibits await. Victorian ephemera, dolls of all sizes, drawings, silk cocoons, an exhibit of Tapa cloth, old crochet hooks, including one created from bending the end of a square headed nail, and Native American items such as beaded boots and an Abenaki basket are on display. Case after case contains something different, including a Mummy! Some memorable and intriguing works were framed and mounted compositions composed of insect parts. One is called “Star” and features 5,280 insects. John Hampson made the piece about 1900. Believe it or not, there were others!

An exhibit of beautiful, framed, Nature photographs were set up, gallery style, with contact information for the artist. The pieces were for sale. A museum shop on the first floor offers mostly items that would appeal to children: stuffed animals, puzzles, and some Christmas ornaments. The museum, the vision of Franklin Fairbanks, is home to Vermont’s only public planetarium.

For anyone who loves birds, animals and the natural world, with some additional points of history included, this museum is a great place to pass a few hours. Since it was a long trip home, and the only restaurant we spotted was McDonald’s, we decided to take a little detour on the way home and visited the “Happy Hour Restaurant” in Wells River, Vermont. The food is dependably good, the service is friendly and the place is comfortable. After a pleasant meal, we headed back to I-93 for the trip south, feeling as though we’d enjoyed our vacation day.

The museum is gearing up for a special event on December 12 from 1-4 p.m. is located at 1302 Main St., St. Johnsbury, VT (802) 748-2372

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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

This blog entry began as a conversation over dinner about people and the way that they hoard material goods. We could not help but think of my (late) mother. She was obsessive-compulsive about what was “hers,” and worried about someone else having anything that belonged to her. She even took a permanent marker to mark her initials on her wooden hangers, the bottoms of plastic pails, and the handles of tools.

Anything that went into her house or barn stayed there. We recalled how she had purchased a tent. Eventually, it made its way out to the barn and when the task fell to my husband and I to liquidate everything on the property and to sell the farm, guess what? The tent was full of black mold and mildew and went to the landfill. Of course, we had to pay someone to haul it off, with about six large truckloads full of old magazines, egg cartons, used meat trays, broken toys, etc.

When mother had a sudden heart attack and landed in the hospital, never to return home, I found the quilt I had so lovingly-made for her, as well as two matching pillow shams, in a pile of dust bunnies on the floor of a bedroom. She always slept on the couch, and silly me, she had no need of a quilt. Funny how wooden hangers and such were more important to her than a handmade quilt from her daughter. And, so it goes. I don’t think there is a single quilt I have given to a family member that has not been totally wrecked, either through ignorance or indifference, perhaps one reason that I am offering the e-book, buy online viagra.

It is difficult to come across people who are so short-sighted that they do not want something that they perceive to be theirs to be used in any way. In so saying, I am thinking about a specific museum who has limited public access to a quilt of historic proportion because somehow, it might affect them adversely, or financially, in the future.

Now, mind you, many quilts are donated to museums by families who think that the quilt in their possession will be enjoyed, studied by scholars, and exhibited for the public. This quilt had been on display in recent months. I was told that the museum disallowed information about the quilt to a fellow researcher. This is not in the interest of good public relations, and if you think that professionals do not share information with each other, guess again.

I will not name the institution. I will just say that I just received a request for a donation (that I will not be honoring). They have lost credibility with me (and had) ever since a little situation in the 1990s, when a lie was perpetrated, just for the sake of duping the public into giving money. If I did not have that information on good authority, I would not believe it, nor be sharing this report of scurrilous, reprehensible and evil misbehavior. Shame!

Museums should be trustworthy. They cut their own throats when their representatives act poorly. I just hope that somebody, somehow, comes to their senses.

When museums alienate the quilters of today, they do so at a price of losing support. Quilters on a professional level are a tight-knit group and we support each other. No, alienating one of us is “not good.” Think about it. You know who you are.

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Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Letter to the Editor:

Hello, My name is Traci Cromwell and I am the Cultural History Collections Manager at the Indiana State Museum. I am trying to get the word out about the museum’s quilt collection that is available for research online in the artifact collection database. See . Currently we have close to 600 historic quilts in the collection online that date from 1810-2000. Highlights from the online quilt collection include:

* The largest collection of Indiana Amish quilts (perhaps Midwestern Amish too) and the best provenanced. Anyone doing research on Amish quilts should visit our site to see them. Includes examples dated in the quilting from 1869 to 1985.
* The Indiania (sic) Fancy Quilt, titled, dated and signed by Clarissa Rohrbach Strong of Delaware County in 1854. Wonderful documentation combined with excellent condition and visually striking design.
* Dogwood quilt designed by Marie Webster and made by Mary Ann Sipe. Webster was the author of the first American book on quilts and was a famous quilt designer from Marion, Indiana. Her work appeared in the Ladies’ Home Journal.
* Storybook appliqué quilt made by Martha Jungclaus in 1929-1937, following the children’s book illustrations of Fern Bissel Peat, an Indiana native.
* Indiana State quilt with all counties made in the county of origin for Hoosier Celebration 88, a state-wide celebration.
* The Lincoln campaign ribbon quilt. Made by 13-year old Maggie Frentz of New Albany in 1876, incorporates campaign ribbons of all candidates for President and Vice President in the 1860 election, including both Lincoln and Douglas.

Please let me know if you have any questions about the museum’s online database that I can answer. We would very much appreciate you posting our online database link to your wonderful quilt website.
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Traci Cromwell
Cultural History Collections Manager
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Dear members and other friends of the Manchester Historic Association,

I am pleased to announce a new event presented by the Manchester Historic Association. On Thursday, November 19 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. the Millyard Museum will be the scene of the “Night at the Millyard Museum – Where History Comes to Life,” an event that is sure to please anyone who would like to mix a little history in with an evening of entertainment and holiday shopping. The evening will feature dancing, buy online viagra, a cash bar, holiday shopping in the Museum Shop, and a silent auction with many affordable items. The museum’s historical exhibits will be open for viewing, and to help history come to life, the event is “costume optional.” Everyone is invited to come dressed in historically-themed costume, and prizes will be given out for the most outstanding examples. Entertainment will be provided by the popular local band, Soulhouse 7, performing a variety of soul, blues, R&B and rock favorites. Highlighting the evening will be a special stage show by Soulhouse 7 with their partners “The Blues Brothers – The Next Generation.”

Ticket prices are $35 ($25 for members of the Manchester Historic Association). Tickets must be purchased or reserved prior to the event. For tickets, stop by the Millyard Museum at 200 Bedford Street, any time from Wednesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., or the Research Center at 129 Amherst Street on Wednesdays or Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Or, you may order or reserve tickets by calling (603) 622-7531.

Would you like to help out by donating a silent auction gift?

We are looking for gift baskets, gift certificates, jewelry, decorative items for the household, holiday centerpieces, artwork, and craft items. All items must be new (unless you would like to donate an antique of some sort – we’re open to suggestions!). Your generosity as a donor will be noted on our website, at the event and in our Annual Report. Donors also receive two free tickets to the event (up to a $70 value). To donate, please contact me by e-mail, or call (603) 622-7531.

For complete details about this event, including an updated list of the silent auction gifts, visit the website .

We will hope to see you at “Night at the Millyard Museum – Where History Comes to Life” event!

Yours,

Aurore

Aurore Eaton
Executive Director
Manchester Historic Association
Millyard Museum – 200 Bedford Street – Manchester, NH – 03101
Research Center – 129 Amherst Street – Manchester, NH – 03101
(603) 622-7531 ext. 223


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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

For Immediate Release

Lowell, MA—October 12, 2009. The New England Quilt Museum is excited to announce their new exhibition of international art quilts. “Masters: 40 Contemporary Master Quilters,” opens November 19, 2009 and explores the cutting edge of art quilting, with today’s most regarded global quilt artists represented in this comprehensive exhibition.

Guest curator Martha Sielman has assembled a seminal collection of representative works by master art quilters, explored in this exhibition and in Sielman’s companion book, Masters: Art Quilts. This expansive look at state-of-the-art quilting brings together works by artists from around the world including Australia, the UK, Japan, Israel, Hungary, France, South Africa, Denmark, and Belgium.

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“Metamorphosis” made by Jane Sassaman in 2000

Artists included in the exhibition include Noriko Endo, whose detailed, realistic landscapes have won critical acclaim worldwide, Kyoung Ae Cho, whose minimalist wood constructions push the boundaries of the fiber art form, and Jane Sassaman, whose bold, sinuous designs have been widely respected among quilt lovers for over 20 years. The exhibition shows not only the wide geographic reach of quilting, but also its thematic range.

From energetic sculptural works to deeply personal portraits, from meticulous visual narratives to enigmatic still-lifes, art quilting embraces as many diverse forms as contemporary painting or sculpture. For those unfamiliar with the medium, the exhibition is a great introduction—for those who have long appreciated the art quilt, a welcome chance to see old favorites and new discoveries.

Sielman, herself a contemporary art quilter whose commissioned works are featured in many corporate and private collections, set out to gain a comprehensive view of contemporary quilt art, researching the works, techniques, and design philosophies of some of today’s leading artists.

The result was first her book buy online viagra, published in 2008 by Lark Books, and now the exhibition that bears its name, showcasing representative works by each of the forty artists profiled in the book.

This exhibit at the New England Quilt Museum in Lowell is the only stop in the Northeast for the exhibition, and its last stop. This exhibit is the only chance for many to see key works by international artists seldom shown in the United States.

Masters opens on November 19, 2009, with a formal opening reception on Saturday, November 21 at 1pm. Sielman will be signing copies of her book, buy online viagra at the reception. The exhibition will run through February 25, 2010.

About the New England Quilt Museum

The New England Quilt Museum, located in Lowell, MA, preserves, interprets, and celebrates American quilting past and present.

Museum hours are 10 AM-4 PM Tuesday through Saturday; and Sundays 12-4 PM, May through December. The museum is closed during the first two weeks of January (Jan. 1-18).

Admission is $7, $5 for seniors and students, and free for museum members. Two for one admission for WGBH and AAA members.

Visit or call 978-452-4207, for more information.

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Christina Inge
Public Relations and Marketing
New England Quilt Museum
18 Shattuck St., Lowell, MA 01852
978-452-4207, ext. 19

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Sunday, September 20th, 2009

ANNOUNCEMENT

Bras for a Cure

Artfully-made Bras by Barbara Malek, Lyn Walfish, and Beth Licari (clockwise from top).

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. The in Lowell, Massachusetts, will feature an exhibit of bras and quilts made by, for, or in memory of women with breast cancer. Both the bras and the quilts were designed and created by NEQM members, as well as the Nimble Thimbles Quilt Guild, Reading, MA, and women who live in the greater Lowell area. The bras and quilts, both poignant and whimsical, will be on display throughout the month of October at the museum.

As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the museum will host an awareness event on October 1, 2009, in conjunction with the display’s opening. On hand will be Meg Lemire, Director of Oncology Social Work and Community Outreach, Lowell General Hospital, who will deliver a lecture that highlights the importance of breast cancer screening and the new treatments available. Hospital staff will accompany her.

The Museum’s Outreach Manager, Rhonda Galpern, coordinated the exhibition and lecture as a means to pay tribute to members of the museum and quilting community who are or have battled the disease, to promote awareness, and to offer cancer survivors a comforting and creative means of expressing their personal experiences.

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Many thanks to the New England Quilt Museum for sending this important announcement. There is perhaps no woman living who does not know another woman or relative who has had breast cancer or who has had it herself, or even the threat of it, via discovery of a lump, albeit benign. New strides are being made in the detection and treatment of breast cancer. While scientists strive to find answers and ways to prevent this disease, as women we all have to come to terms with it, directly or indirectly. Personally, I am happy to see many women plying their needles in support of awareness. ~ Patricia Cummings ~

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Thursday, September 17th, 2009

at Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, New Hampshire, presented a talk titled, “Free Speech in a Free Society,” at Folsom Tavern on the grounds of the in Exeter, New Hampshire, on September 17, 2009. The information was organized and presented in a flawless manner, reflecting the many years that this individual has taught classes in Law.

In greeting the public, in the small, intimate quarters of an upstairs meeting room that was filled to capacity, the speaker mentioned that the topic of free speech is very appropriate because 1) It is “Constitution Day,” and 2) There are two drafts of the Constitution in the museum, complete with “cross-outs, annotations, and doodling” in the margins. We always realized that the American Independence Museum is a very special landmark in our state, and this is something else to its credit!

The talk was extremely compelling. Practical examples were set forth that described how law might be applied across a large array of potential situations. The one example that looms large, in coming away from the talk, is that free speech is necessary in society in order to create a “marketplace of ideas.” When all ideas are not heard, someone’s personal expression is limited, which can be frustrating to an individual, and the situation can create social disharmony. The person who is not allowed to have his say (at a town meeting, or elsewhere) may choose more destructive means of expression (like making a Molotov cocktail in his basement).

I think we’ve all seen in the news the results of what can happen to those whose ideas are not considered. They may be the ones who suddenly “go postal.” (This is my statement, not that of Dr. Hesse).

I loved this presentation! The meaning of the First Amendment (“Government can make no law …”) was explained, as well as the concepts that surround free speech in our society. The lecture was just one of many in a series endowed by grants from the , a group that plans to host Salman Rushdie, author of buy online viagra and other books, as the keynote speaker this coming month, (October 13, at a dinner, by pre-registration).

The professor spoke for 50 minutes and then took questions. My intent is not to give away his whole talk, but just to tell you enough so that you will want to attend yourself, if and when he presents the topic again. As always, we are so grateful for these marvelous lectures that are so informative. I feel that I have a much better understanding of this topic now, thanks to Dr. Hesse. We have attended perhaps 11 of these lectures this season and each one has added so much to our appreciation of many facets of Humanities, from Music to Poetry to Symbology of Gravestones, and so much more! Thank you!

Patricia Cummings

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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

NEW ENGLAND QUILT MUSEUM
Lowell, Massachusetts

For Immediate Release

The museum calls this quilt the “Grandpa Quilt.” This mid-20th century necktie/portrait quilt was created by an unknown maker. photo by Fletcher Boland

The New England Quilt Museum is pleased to announce their first exhibition of the Fall season, “MASTER PIECES: Haberdashery Textiles in Antique Quilts.” Featuring quilts made from menswear, some of it recycled clothing, this remarkable exhibition brings together over 40 intriguing graphic works made from simple utilitarian fabrics long overlooked in the study of antique quilts. The guest curator for the exhibit is noted antiques dealer and author, Laura Fisher, of in New York City.

The antique quilts on exhibit are made of menswear fabrics recycled from suits and shirts, neckties, pajamas, military uniforms, work clothes—even woolen underwear and socks. Some also resulted from the artful salvage of menswear swatch sample books and fabric mill remnants.

Popular for about a century, these quilts are compelling and often whimsical. Simple squares arranged in a diagonal pattern prove on close inspection to be made from scraps of patterned jersey socks. A shimmering kaleidoscope of diamonds in rust reds and yellows is pieced from 1950s rayon neckties. Thin lines going in every direction look like a contemporary drawing but are actually random scraps in a crazy quilt pieced of circa 1915 striped silk shirting. The narrow serpentine strips in the blocks of a 1905 Amish quilt are cuttings from woolen long johns. Bright, dimensional pinwheels are embroidered on an unlikely foundation of tailor’s wool suiting swatches, as are a flock of vividly colored birds on branches.

Visually stunning and strikingly modern, these antique textiles make distinct graphic statements out of the most everyday materials.

In addition to the quilts themselves, the exhibit will feature historic advertisements, swatch books, and catalogs from menswear businesses, dating from the 1900s through the 1950s, including several items from the vaults of Brooks Brothers, the chief sponsor of the exhibition.

The tradition of making unique, often very personal quilts from re-purposed menswear textiles gained popularity around 1850, and lasted through the 1950s. Today, the tradition revives in memory quilts made from old T-shirts and clothing that has personal sentiment. Recycling these materials is now considered environmentally aware, adding further appeal to their inherent design potential.

Laura Fisher will be speaking about the exhibition’s content at the opening reception on September 26. In addition, historic textiles expert, Pam Weeks, will deliver a lecture about textile production in New England mills on October 17.

Support for this exhibition is provided in part by Brooks Brothers and by P&B Textiles.

Fabrics inspired by one of the quilts in the exhibition, in the style of the early 1900s, have been produced by Marcus Fabrics and are currently available in the Museum shop, with proceeds to benefit the museum.

The opening reception is sponsored by School House Quilters.

About the New England Quilt Museum

The New England Quilt Museum, 18 Shattuck Street in Lowell, MA, preserves, interprets, and celebrates America’s quilting past and present.

Museum hours are 10 AM – 4 PM, Tuesday- Saturday; and Sundays 12 – 4 PM, May through December. Admission is $7 for adults, $5 for students/senior citizens; Museum members are admitted free.

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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Charles E. Clark, Ph.D. asked himself, “What Makes People Laugh?” and then launched into a review of periodicals to find jokes and humorous stories published in early New England during the 1790s and beyond.

His talk, “What New Hampshire Thought Funny Two Hundred Years Ago,” is a program sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council. We heard this lecture at the Libby Museum in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire on August 11, 2009. All talks in this series repeat in various New Hampshire locations.

Libby Museum, Wolfeboro

Libby Museum, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire

The lecturer explored recurrent themes that were the basis for laughter. Early New Hampshire settlers made fun of the clergy, lawyers, doctors, sex, or ethnicity, particularly, the Irish. Jokes often centered on a contrast of the sophisticated, educated person with the country bumpkin.

Additionally, people enjoy laughing at themselves, or their situations, for the sake of comic relief. An audience member mentioned the television series, “Mash,” as a modern day example; and another person recalled the movie, “Glory,” to illustrate that same point.

Professor Clark read quite a few examples of early, published humor, especially notable quotes from “NH Farmer’s Journal and the Farmer’s Weekly Museum,” (a name that changed a few times), based in Walpole, New Hampshire, and primarily written by Harvard-trained lawyers who wrote many “lawyer jokes,” thereby making fun of themselves. “The Walpole Wits,” as they were called, succeeded in producing a publication with an extraordinary circulation for their time.

Citing another source, the presenter shared the story of a man who wanted to steal a pound of butter from a Vermont country store. He put it under his hat and tried to slip out the door. The storekeeper realized what was happening and invited the man to sit down next to a hot fireplace and cordially provided him with a hot toddies, which made him very “hot.” Butter soon began to drip down the man’s clothes and when he was thoroughly saturated, the storekeeper thanked him for providing so much amusement, and said that the price of a pound of butter had been worth it all.

When the audience was asked to share something that they found humorous, I mentioned the Irish song about a sweet old dearie, retiring for the night. The verse goes: “She was pullin’ ‘em up, and pullin’ ‘em down, and forgot to pull down the shade.”

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We have attended ten nightly educational events of this kind this summer and have to say that we have thoroughly enjoyed them. From Dr. Martin Fox’s “History of Photography,” to Edie Clark’s discussion of regional cooking, to three memorable musical programs, and many other worthwhile programs, I believe I’ve probably mentioned all of these events on this blog. So, scroll backwards to other pages to see those comments. Many thanks to Dr. Clark for this most recent, delightful program!

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View of Lake Winnipesaukee, at sunset, across from the Libby Museum

One presenter, Steve Blunt, who reenacts the character of “John Hutchinson” of The Hutchinson Family Singers, is a consummate showman who dresses in period costume. He tells me that he will be performing at Eastern States Exposition on September 25, 2009, in the morning, with the gal who sometimes accompanies him. We enjoyed seeing him at the Hancock Public Library. I can’t say enough about the NH Humanities Council’s dedication to providing excellent speakers and presenters!

By the way, the Libby Museum offers many interesting artifacts including an early schoolgirl Sampler, a piece of buy online viagra cloth from Hawaii, and a coin from Pres. Harrison’s campaign, just a few of their many treasures. In 1912, Dr. Henry Forest Libby started the museum as one to focus on natural history. Since then, many additional items have been added. We hope to visit there again soon!

Ever a learner!

Patricia Cummings

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