{"id":74327,"date":"2016-10-22T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=74327"},"modified":"2016-10-22T00:16:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T04:16:58","slug":"internationally-recognized-quilt-collector-curates-historical-quilts-at-the-schweinfurth-art-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=74327","title":{"rendered":"Internationally Recognized Quilt Collector Curates Historical Quilts\u00a0at the Schweinfurth Art center"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"schweinfurth\"<\/a>The Schweinfurth Art Center\u2019s acclaimed Quilts=Art=Quilts exhibit will be paired with American Quilts: History and Art, curated by Jonathan Holstein, a world-renown collector and curator who\u00a0resides in Cazenovia. Both exhibits have an opening reception Oct. 29 at 4 to 6 pm. Awards for QAQ will be announced at 5 p.m. The exhibit will be open until Jan. 8,\u00a02017.<\/p>\n

This pairing is an opportunity for viewers to see both contemporary and historical quilting\u00a0techniques in one visit. American Quilts: History and Art will showcase 21 quilts grouped together\u00a0by theme such as African American Quilts, Amish Quilts, Figurative Quilts . . . and more. Curator\u00a0Jonathan Holstein and his wife Gail van der Hoof began to collect quilts in the late 1960s, and in\u00a01971 curated the seminal exhibition, Abstract Design in American Quilts, at the Whitney Museum\u00a0of American Art in New York. The collection they formed ultimately went to the International Quilt\u00a0Study Center and Museum in Lincoln, Neb.<\/p>\n

Their exhibitions here and abroad, along\u00a0with their writing and lecturing, furthered both the appreciation of American quilts as significant\u00a0designed objects, and encouraged the now-international art quilt movement. In this exhibit\u00a0Holstein turned his trained eye to the collection of the IQSC and curated this exhibition for the\u00a0Davis Family Gallery, which is on the art center\u2019s second level. Holstein will also be giving a lecture\u00a0on the exhibit Sunday, Nov. 13, at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n

Director Donna Lamb says, \u201cThere are several quilts in the American Quilts exhibit that directly influenced contemporary quilt making. By showing the QAQ and American Quilts exhibits together,\u00a0we provide a rare opportunity for our audience to see the origins of certain types of design. For\u00a0example, Anna Williams\u2019 quilts inspired an entire movement using improvisational strip piecing.\u00a0There are several contemporary artists represented in QAQ who continue to use those\u00a0techniques.\u201d<\/p>\n

The side-by- side comparison of both a historical and contemporary quilt exhibit will demonstrate parallels, origins, and departures of tradition, which is an important topic when discussing quilt\u00a0making. This year\u2019s Q=A=Q exhibit will feature 65 quilts from 51 exhibiting artists, from all over the\u00a0world including Belgium, Australia, and Canada, as well as artists from upstate New York such as\u00a0Julia Graziano of Manlius, and Ruth White of Ithaca.<\/p>\n

This year jurors were internationally known artists Judy Kirpich, Terry Jarrad-Dimond, and Valerie\u00a0Goodwin. They reviewed 298 quilts. Prizes will be awarded by juror Lasse Antonsen at the opening\u00a0reception. The exhibit is sponsored by Tompkins Trust Company, The Davis Family Trust, and the\u00a0New York State Council on the Arts.<\/p>\n

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