“Quilt & Color” San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, through September 5, 2016

July 29, 2016

Quilts & Color  from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is on exhibit  at San Diego Museum of Art in San Diego, California, until September 5, 2016.  This is a fabulous showing of quilts, which I saw while it was in Boston.

More at: sdmart.org  

You can also check my March 15, 2014, blog entry about Quilts & Color while it was in Boston.

“Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry: 40 Years of Color, Light & Motion” Mitchell Museum, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, Illinois, July 31 – October 9, 2016

July 24, 2016

Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry: 40 Years of Color, Light & Motion will be at Mitchell Museum in Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, Illinois, from July 31 – October 9, 2016

Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry – “Celebration #1”

This forty year retrospective exhibition features 47 quilts by Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry made over four decades, including her first quilt from 1976 as well as her most recent pieces.


You can see photos of all the quilts at: Mitchell Museum, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts

Good Bye “Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine”

July 19, 2016

Sad to learn that Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine will publish its last issue with October/November 2016. The magazine was founded in 1969 and was the only magazine devoted only to quilting for many years.

Quilter's Newsletter

“Beauty of Japan” LaConner Quilt & Textile Museum, LaConner, Washington, through October 2, 2016

July 17, 2016

LaConner Quilt & Textile Museum, LaConner, Washington,  has Beauty of Japan exhibit taking the top two floors of the building, until October 2, 2016.  Here is info about the quilts and their makers: https://okanarts.com/beauty-of-japan/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=July eNews 2016

Sachiko Yoshida with The Colors of Japanese Fabrics

Photos from Okanarts.com

La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum

“To Dye For” Visions Art Museum, San Diego, California, July 16 – October 2, 2016

July 8, 2016
To Dye For will be at Visions Art Museum  in San Diego, California, July 16 – October 2, 2016

Lyric Kinard – “Mill Wheels IV: Progress”

This exhibition features works by artists Sue Cavanaugh, Kim Eichler-Messmer, Ann Johnston, Lyric Montgomery Kinard, and Jeannie Palmer Moore.

 

Visions Art Museum

Patriotic Quilts

July 3, 2016

For celebration of the Fourth of July, here are some patriotic quilts from TheQuiltShow by Smilebox:

Click to play this Smilebox slideshow