For those of you in the U.S., many of you may have tuned in to listen to Diane Rehm’s talk show, from time to time. On December 12, 2006, Diane featured a fifty minute interview with Gayle Pritchard, author of a new book on Ohio’s Art Quilts. The name of the book is “Uncommon Threads.”

The show began with a discussion of a Ladies Home Journal article in 1908, entitled “Patchwork Becomes Art.” The thought was expressed that quilts have often carried “political, social, or aesthetic messages.” Quilts have been a vehicle through which women have been free to express themselves, and even more so, since the custom has become to hang quilts vertically.
Before listening to this interview, I had not been aware that (the late) Michael Kile, and Penny McMorris had together coined the term “Art Quilt.”

In another part of the interview, Pritchard iterated the idea that history decides what is art.

Luckily, the whole interview is archived and available to hear online at

The book sounds great. I shall have to be very, very good, and ask Santa to bring me a copy.

Patricia

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