Transcript Quilts - American Transitions from Rural to Urban Life | A

Quilt-making Workshop
American Transitions
Conference | August 11, 2011
The Water Brought Us
Here... The Water Will
Take Us Back
By: Carolyn, Mazloomi,
Date: 1991
Location Made: Cincinnati, Ohio
(OH)
Project Name: Kentucky Quilt
Project
Contributor: University of
Louisville Archives and Records
Center
ID Number: 34-26-7
Fabrics: Cotton
The Sun Sets on
Sunbonnet Sue
The Seamster's Union (Local
#500) - Brackman, Barbara;
Metinger, Nancy; Dwigans, Cathy;
Metzinger, Laurie Schwarm; Hood,
Gloria; Englinski, Georgann; Dill,
Bonnie; Boyer, Patty; Kelley, Bette;
Jones, Carol Gilham; Dangerfield,
Nadra; Anderson, Bryan
Date: c. 1979
Location Made: Lawrence, Kansas
Project Name: Michigan State
University Museum Collection
ID Number: 01.0001
Fabrics: Cotton, Cotton or
polyester blend, Velvet, Multiple
scrap
Purpose or Function: Art or
personal expression, Artwork/wall
hanging
Other Notes: Purchased by
collector Kitty Clark Cole and
donated to the Michigan State
University Museum in 2001.
Inscription: Seamsters Union #500
Lawrence Kansas
Sunbonnet Sue Uses
Renewable Energy
By: Laura Martin
Location Made: Arlington, Texas
Project Name: New from Old
ID Number: 55
Quilt Size: 16 inches x 16 inches
Strange Fruit: A
Century of Lynching
By: April Shipp
Date: 2003
Location Made: Auburn Hills,
Michigan
Project Name: Michigan Quilt
Project
Contributor: Michigan State
University Museum
ID Number: 08.0001
Fabrics: Silk, Cotton, Other,
Corduroy
Purpose or Function:
Commemorative, Art or personal
expression, Artwork/wall hanging
Inscription: Strange Fruit. A
Century of Lynching and Murder
1865-1965 (in red machine
embroidery) Dedicated to Ida Bell
Wells-Barnett (in gold machine
embroidery) 100s of names of
victims of lynchings and their
states (in gold machine
embroidery)
Four Freedoms
By: Bertha Stenge
Date: 1943
Location Made: Chicago, Illinois
Contributor: Illinois State
Museum
ID Number: 1996.68.2
Fabrics: Cotton, Other blends,
Solid/plain, cotton and rayon
blend
Purpose or Function: Art or
personal expression
Other Notes: Inspired by Norman
Rockwell's paintings., 6 other
quilts by Bertha in Museum's
collection.
Inscription: Freedom from Fear,
Freedom of Worship, Freedom
from Want, Freedom of Speech
Origami Cranes Quilt
By: Lois K. Ide
Date: 1986
Collection: Lois K. Ide Collection
Source: Historical object(s) or
artifact(s); H 86245
Submitting Institution: Ohio
Historical Society
Lois K. Ide (1920-2010) titled her
hand quilted work Origami
Cranes. Made in 1986, she
designed the quilt in horizontal
stripes of solid red, solid white,
blue and white polka-dots, and
screen printed birds. Appliquéd
origami cranes of different sizes
are scattered across the quilt. The
crane, a symbol of peace in Japan,
is one of the Japanese's favorite
subjects for the paper folding
technique of origami.
Merits of Bombs?
By: Meena Schaldenbrand
Date: November 2005
Location Made: Plymouth,
Michigan
Project Name: Michigan Quilt
Project
Contributor: Michigan State
University Museum
ID Number: 08.0004
Fabrics: Cotton, Camouflage,
metallic
Purpose or Function:
Commemorative, Art or personal
expression, Artwork/wall hanging
Road to Recovery, New
York World's Fair Quilt
By: Mary Gasperik
Date: 1939
Location Made: Chicago, Illinois (IL) United
States
Contributor: Gasperik Collection
ID Number: 066
Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain
Purpose or Function: Commemorative,
Challenge or Contest entry, Artwork/wall
hanging
Other Notes: The theme of the 1939 New
York Fair was transportation, perhaps
explaining Gasperik's decision to depict a
road with a traveling car. Two of the
emblems of this Fair are appliqued at the
top of the quilt: the needlelike Trylon and
the Perisphere globe.
Inscription: Quilted inscriptions bottom to
top read: CHICAGO, 1929, 1930, 1931,
1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938,
culminating at the top with NEW YORK
WORLD'S FAIR 1939. Road signs pointing
the way read: "Road to Recovery" and
"New York City."
Peaceable Planet
By: Jacksonville Beach Elementary
School/Heidi B. Lowey-Ball,
Date: September, 1995
Location Made: Jacksonville
Beach, Florida (FL) United States
Project Name: Lands' End AllAmerican Quilt Collection
Contributor: American Folklife
Center, Library of Congress
ID Number: AFC 1997/011: Folder
9053 P1
Fabrics: Cotton
Purpose or Function: Challenge or
Contest entry, Other,
Artwork/wall hanging
The Charm of
Impressionism
By: Marlene Brown Woodfield,
Date: January, 1992
Location Made: Indiana (IN) United
States
Project Name: Lands' End All-American
Quilt Collection
Contributor: American Folklife Center,
Library of Congress
ID Number: AFC 1997/011: Folder
9008 P1
Fabrics: Cotton or polyester blend,
Cotton
Purpose or Function: Challenge or
Contest entry, Artwork/wall hanging
History of Colorado
Trains
Quilter Group: Volunteers of the Rocky
Mountain Quilt Museum
Date: 1994
Location Made: Colorado (CO) United States
Project Name: RMQM Permanent Collection
Contributor: Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
ID Number: PQ.1995.004.001
Fabrics: Cotton, Other synthetic, Solid/plain,
Plaid, Geometric, Floral, Dotted, Striped,
Checked
Other Notes: This pictorial quilt is a
celebration of all types of railroads in Colorado
history. It has hand embroidered decorations
with cotton thread, buttons, a bell, and braid.
As part of the museum's "Quilts in Public
Places" program, this quilt hung at the
Caboose Hobbies store in Denver in 1996. See
notes for explanation of panels.
Quilt Square
• Choose an aspect of an art or social studies
topic that you teach.
• How would you represent it in a quilt square?
• As you are working think about other aspects
of this topic you or your students could
translate into quilt squares.
Consider
• How is this different from a more traditional
assignment like an essay?
• How might you incorporate other art forms,
artworks, and/or primary source materials?
• Where are other interdisciplinary
connections?