Episode 040: Jennifer Swope of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
In this episode we: get a sneak peek of the @mfaboston's upcoming quilt exhibition Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories. ponder the stories of quilts and quilters, consider all the quilts that don't make it into a quilt exhibition, and update our own stash stories to claim they're all "circumstantially acquired."
Show Notes:
0:57 - David and Roberta Logie Department of Textile and Fashion Arts
1:01 - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1:07 - Boston
3:08 - Winterthur Program, American Material Culture
5:29 - MFA (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
5:36 - Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories
5:46 - Grab tickets to visit the Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories exhibition
5:48 - MFA (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
6:14 - Logan International Airport
7:30 - Quilts and Color. The Pilgrim / Roy Collection
7:40 - Quilts and Color. The Pilgrim / Roy Collection catalogue
7:52 - MFA (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
7:57 - Quilts of Gee's Bend
8:26 and 8:44 - The Pilgrim / Roy collection
8:47, 8:51 and 9:33 - Gerald Roy
8:48, 8:56 and 9:38 - Paul Pilgrim
9:06 - Josef Albers
9:48 - Brimfield
10:02 and 10:05 - Amish
12:11- Quilt and craft revival
12:23 - Studio craft movement
14:24 - Carla Hemlock
14:26 - Kahnawake Mohawk
14:33 - Beading work
15:39 - Ivy league school
17:46 - The Ann and Graham Gund Gallery
19:17 - Foam core galleries
19:29 - Quilts and Color. The Pilgrim / Roy Collection
19:44 - Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories exhibition
20:09 - Foam core galleries
20:15 - Kyla Hygysician
22:48 - Poston Internment Camp
22:50 - Arizona
22:52 - World War II
22:52 - Masako Hirata
22:53 - Quilt by Japanese American kids in the Poston Internment Camp
22:56 - Masako Hirata’s fourth grade class
23:04 - National Japanese American Historical Society
23:05 - San Francisco
23:35 - Harriet Powers’s Bible Quilt
23:39 - MFA (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
23:40 - Harriet Powers’s Pictorial quilt
23:49 - Harriet Powers
24:30 - Michael Thorpe (@iversonsdurag)
24:21 - New York
24:23 - Newton, Massachusetts
24:31 - Longarm quilting machine
24:37 - George Floyd
24:46 - Michael Thorpe’s quilt and poem
25:00 - Applique
26:48 - Poston Internment Camp fourth grade class quilt
26:56 - World War II
27:03 - Civil War
27:10 - Applique
28:12 - Civil War
29:10 - Harriet Powers
29:53 - Harriet Powers’s Pictorial quilt
29:55 - Memphis World Fair of 1897
31:07 - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
32:43 - Steely Dead
32:46 - Denver
33:24 - John and Hank Green
33:34 - Indiana
33:47 - Quilt Buzz
34:10 - Log Cabin traditional quilt block
34:14 - Four-Patch traditional quilt block
34:16 - Nine-Patch traditional quilt block
34:30 - Gerald Roy
34:34 - Paul Pilgrim
34:57 - Resist-dyed textile techniques
36:22 - Wholecloth quilts
36:23 - Victorian Crazy quilts
36:25 - Traditional sampler quilts
36:53 - Harriet Powers
36:59 - Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories exhibition
37:05 - Quilts and Color. The Pilgrim / Roy Collection exhibition
37:11 - Faith Ringgold’s quilt, Dream 2: King of the Sisterhood (1988)
37:36 - Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories exhibition
37:38 - Applique
37:47 - Tie dye
37:53 - Faith Ringgold
37:54 - Sharpie
28:05 - Dr Martin Luther King
38:09 - Fannie Lou Hamer
38L10 - Rosa Parks
38:16 - Civil Rights movement
38:25 - Sylvia Hernández
38:26 - Williamsburg, Brooklyn
38:44 and 38:54 - Connecticut
39:42 - Faith Ringgold
39:45 - Harriet Powers
39:55 - Susan Hoffman
40:02 - Bisa Butler
40:08 - Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories exhibition
40:56 - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston website
41:21 - MFA (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Click here for more information on Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories and how to visit the museum
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