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Public Programs
Exhibit and Boxes Under the Bed™ Lecture
Beginning in 2000, Winedale has mounted an annual exhibit of antique quilts from its Decorative Arts Collection in conjunction with the Colorado Valley Quilt Guild and its annual display "The Best Little Quilt Show in Texas." Held at the end of February over a weekend, the two events offer the opportunity for quilt enthusiasts from all over south-central Texas to view antique quilts at Winedale and modern traditional and art quilts in LaGrange, Texas, some fifteen miles away. In 2005, Winedale expanded its two-day exhibit (February 25–26) to include a public lecture "Quilting History: Piecing Together the Past One Scrap at a Time," presented on February 24 by CAH's Brenda Gunn, then head of the Center's Archives and Manuscripts unit. Brenda spoke to a packed house at Winedale's Meadows Foundation Education Center, giving a brief history of quilting in Texas, discussing the importance of documenting quilt history, and describing the Alliance's Boxes Under the Bed™ project. Participants were given the Boxes Under the Bed checklist of materials and the Society of American Archivists brochure that describes types of materials to donate to an archival repository.
Exhibit and Lectures on Freedom Quilt Collection
On February 24, 2006, Winedale opened "Transcending 9/11: Quilters' Reflections," an exhibition of thirty-nine quilts and wall hangings fashioned by San Antonio quilters out of 139 quilt blocks made by quilters in Japan as a gesture of condolence to the United States following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The display was held in Winedale's Meadows Foundation Education Center from February 25 to March 10. To highlight the exhibit, San Antonio quilter and project facilitator Dr. Barbara Gilstad gave two lectures on the history of this unique cross-cultural quilt project.
Upcoming Events
In October 2006, nine Winedale quilts will go on display at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin as part of an exhibit of traditional quilts collected by nationally known philanthropist and decorative arts collector Miss Ima Hogg. Titled "Miss Ima's Quilts," the display will feature twenty-five quilts collected by Miss Ima to furnish three historic properties that she owned and subsequently donated to the people of Texas in the 1950s and 1960s: Bayou Bend, now the Decorative Arts Branch of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Varner-Hogg Plantation, now a State Historical Park administered by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department; and Winedale, now a division of the Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
Two quilts to be featured in the Miss Ima's Quilts exhibition:
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| Star Crib Quilt, ca. 1860 | Pineapple Quilt, 1849 |
Organizations and projects related to the Winedale Center for the Quilt
The Alliance for American Quilts is a nonprofit organization founded in 1993 to unite the varied elements of the quilt world around a shared vision. This vision recognizes quilts not only as works of art, but as pieces of history with stories to be documented and preserved.
The Alliance Regional Centers For The Quilt are a network of partners around the country serving to educate, document, interpret, preserve, and present information of and about quilt and quilt history.
Boxes Under the Bed™ is a national project to train local researchers to identify and rescue quilt-related items such as letters, clippings, patterns, etc. in need of preservation.
The Quilt Index is a growing online research and reference tool designed to provide unprecedented access to information and images about quilts held in private and public hands.