2021 Exhibition Schedule - THE NATIONAL QUILT MUSEUM *Exhibition schedule may be subject to change

THE NATIONAL QUILT MUSEUM
                         2021 Exhibition Schedule

*Exhibition schedule may be subject to change

Current exhibitions continuing into 2021:

●INSPIRED BY ENDANGERED SPECIES · through January 12, 2021

●BLOCK OF THE MONTH CLUB 2019 · through January 30, 2021

●60K LOG CABIN QUILTS BY AMY PABST · through January 19, 2021

●SOUTHERN QUILTS WITH MARY W. KERR · through March 9, 2021

2021 SCHOOL BLOCK CHALLENGE
January 15 – April 6, 2021
Gallery C

School Block Challenge is an annual quilt block
competition and exhibit, sponsored by Moda Fabrics,
for children grades K-12 nationwide.

Moda generously provides three challenge fabrics
that must be included in every block entry. Students
can put their math skills & creativity to work in
creating a quilt square of their own design.

Entries are judged in the following categories: K-4th
grade, 5th–8th grade, 9th–12th grade. Cash prizes are
awarded to the teacher/parent of the winning
students for arts/quilt education. All entries are
included in the exhibition at The National Quilt
Museum.

NATURE’S LAYERS
                     BY KAREN LINDUSKA

                     January 22 – March 23, 2021
                     The Corner Gallery

                     Karen loves texture and working in layers. Her art quilts are
                     made from the perspective of seeing them from a side view;
                     looking at the layers of the plant shapes, seeing the flowers
                     and insects peeking out. This show is a variety of Karen’s
                     work from several series she has created in the last 10
                     years: Fantasy Garden, Glorious, and Marshland.

Mexican Sunflowers

SEW MANY QUILTS: CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF
THE NATIONAL QUILT MUSEUM
MARCH 12 – JUNE 8, 2021
GALLERY B

On the day the museum opened in 1991, the entire collection
included 85 quilts that were on loan from the founders, Bill and
Meredith Schroeder. Over time, the collection has expanded both in
quantity and diversity and today the museum’s collection exceeds 600
works of art and continues to grow.

This exhibition, of collection quilts representing 30 years, celebrates
the significant impact of The National Quilt Museum on the quilting
and arts community since its founding.

MODERN QUILT GUILD RETROSPECTIVE
APRIL 9 – JULY 27, 2021
GALLERY C

Modern quilting has existed in many forms for much of
the 20th century. It wasn't until the 2000's that quilts
with a modern aesthetic, the use of bold colors and
prints, high contrast and graphic areas of solid color,
improvisational piecing, minimalism, expansive negative
space, and alternate grid work began to appear in
greater numbers and quilters began to describe
themselves as modern.

This exhibition is a collection of quilts made by members
of The Modern Quilt Guild over the first ten years of the
organization.

PATTERN FUSION
                     BY ARTURO ALONZO SANDOVAL

                     MARCH 26 – JUNE 1, 2021
                     The Corner Gallery

                     Pattern Fusion explores quilt motifs using recycled materials for
                     the vertical and horizontal elements. Repurposed 35 mm
                     microfilm has an innate graphic pattern created by the
                     microfilm text and photos. The addition of various colored
                     Mylar, machine stitching, embroidery, and layers of netting
                     creates several fused patterns when these materials are joined
                     together by interlacing. Some of the results are subtle and
                     others bold.
                     Whether using a floor loom, sewing machine, interlacing, or
                     simply combining recycled or new materials in collage or
                     assemblage processes, Sandoval pursues the cutting edge in his
                     chosen art medium.
Pattern Fusion #12

STONE PORTRAITS & SACRED STONESCAPES
                    BY DENISE LABADIE

                    JUNE 11 – SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
                    GALLERY B

                    Denise makes contemporary art quilt portraits of very non-
                    contemporary structures: megalithic Celtic stones and
                    monoliths, and more recent (but still centuries old) monastic
                    ruins.
                    These stonescapes – stone circles, standing stones, dolmens,
                    burial tombs, abandoned churches, forgotten cemeteries, and
                    lost-in-history portals and passageways – embody both
                    immense timelessness and physical presence while evoking
                    emotional remembrances of human pasts largely forgotten.

Passage at Knowth

QUARANTINE QUILTS:
                         CREATIVITY IN THE MIDST OF CHAOS
                         JURIED BY SANDRA SIDER, CURATOR OF THE TEXAS QUILT MUSEUM AND
                         EDITOR OF SAQA’S ART QUILT QUARTERLY
                         June 4 – August 31, 2021
                         Main Gallery Annex

                         Artists from around the world were challenged to create a new
                         quilt about the virus, life during quarantine, or simply how they
                         preserved their sanity during these uncertain times. This
                         exhibition features 30 quilts selected by Sandra Sider, Curator of
                         the Texas Quilt Museum and editor of SAQA’s Art Quilt Quarterly.

Chaos & Uncertainty
Victoria Findlay Wolfe

BALTIMORE GOES MODERN
                     BY CATHY ERICKSON

                     June 4 – August 10, 2021
                     The Corner Gallery

                     In order to combine her love of history, genealogy,
                     and quilting, Cathy started work on a series called
                     “Baltimore Goes Modern.” This series uses blocks
                     commonly found on album quilts and transforms
                     them with a modern twist.

                     Block size, quilt design, fabric colors, quilting, and
                     block deconstruction are the main tools that Cathy
B is for Baltimore   uses to give a modern feel to a very traditional block.

NEVER FORGET:
                QUILTS FROM THE 9/11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM
                JULY 30 – NOVEMBER 2, 2021
                GALLERY C

                The National Quilt Museum is honored to host a collection of quilts
                from the 9/11 Memorial & Museum for an exclusive exhibition in
                commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001
                attacks, which killed 2,977 people, and the 1993 World Trade Center
                bombing, which killed six.

 Reflections
Martha Kotter

SILHOUETTE QUILTS
         BY MAGGIE WEISS

         AUGUST 13 – OCTOBER 12, 2021
         THE CORNER GALLERY

         Maggie’s goal as an artist is to create a compelling surface that
         invites the viewer to react, take a closer look and to strive to
         bring beauty or awareness into the world.
         The Silhouette Quilts exhibition combines the principles of
         composition, design and collage with art cloth and quilt making,
         to make it the best of both worlds.

Canopy

PRIMAL FORCES: EARTH
PRESENTED BY SAQA
(Studio Art Quilt Associates)
September 17 – January 11, 2022
Gallery B

Forty artists have been selected for the SAQA
Global Exhibition Primal Forces: Earth by juror
Sue Cavanaugh. This exhibition is the first in a
three-part series to premiere at The National
Quilt Museum over a six-year period.
This exhibition illustrates that all life on this
planet depends on earth: it nurtures us through
the soil beneath our feet. However, it can be a
destructive force as well. Seismic activity and
mudslides have shaped the landscape for
millions of years and taken a toll on living beings
as well. We are in an era of tremendous change
in earth as well, due to shifting balances
brought on by human activity.

PAINTED QUILTS
            BY DENISE MUCCI FURNISH

            October 15 – December 7, 2021
            The Corner Gallery

            Denise uses discarded quilts, a craft medium most
            commonly associated with women’s domestic work,
            recognizing that these artifacts have value as material
            repositories/artifacts embedded with the decisions of
            their makers–aesthetic, utilitarian, and creative. She
            appropriates the remains of quilts and paints into
            them, interacting with their form, pattern, and surface.

The Story

THE ROOTS AND REFUGE SERIES
                      BY VALERIE C. WHITE

                      November 5, 2021 – March 1, 2022
                      Gallery C
                      As a textile artist, Valerie chooses to express herself
                      using dye, fabric markers, discharging agents, textile
                      paint and a host of wet materials.

                      In her Roots and Refuge Series, Valerie encourages one
                      to consider roots as metaphors. Roots, like people, are
                      intertwined and connected. Her intent is to challenge
                      the viewer to see the beauty and complexity of roots.

Below Sacred Ground

JUXTAPASSION BY JOHN LEFELHOCZ
                             December 10, 2021 – February 22, 2022
                             The Corner Gallery

                             John gained international recognition as a quilt
                             artist in the late 1990's and has since shown works
                             nationally and internationally in this medium.

                             John also creates works in many other media
                             including sculpture, painting, cartography, and the
                             graphic arts.

Facet|Nation (Break Point)

*Exhibition schedule may be subject to change