The National Quilt Museum promotes the work of today's quilters through exhibits, education programs, preservation, and advocacy efforts.
The museum is committed to the effective care of all quilts so they can be enjoyed by future generations. As part of our effort to educate museums, organizations, and individuals on effective quilt care, we have established the
National Quilt Museum Certified Partner Program
Organizations that become National Quilt Museum Certified Partners have agreed to follow our guidelines in the following areas:
- Quilt Storage
- Quilt Shipping
- Quilt Exhibition
- Quilt Documentation
- Quilt Handling
- And Overall Quilt Preservation.
You will know that an organization is a National Quilt Museum Certified Partner if they have the following badge on their website, social media pages, or print materials. Only Certified Partners are authorized to use the badge.
For information on becoming a National Quilt Museum Certified Partner,
please contact Museum Registrar, Laura Hendrickson at 270-442-8856 for details.
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Current Exhibits
09aprAll Day27julModern Quilt Guild Retrospective
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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
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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.
Time
April 9 (Friday) - July 27 (Tuesday)
04junAll Day10augBaltimore Goes Modern by Cathy Erickson
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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
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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 uses to give a modern feel to a very traditional block.
Time
June 4 (Friday) - August 10 (Tuesday)
04junAll Day31augQuarantine Quilts: Creativity in the Midst of Chaos
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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.
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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 27 quilts selected by Sandra Sider, Curator of the Texas Quilt Museum and editor of SAQA’s Art Quilt Quarterly.
Time
June 4 (Friday) - August 31 (Tuesday)
11junAll Day14sepStone Portraits & Sacred Stonescapes by Denise Labadie
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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,
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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.
Time
June 11 (Friday) - September 14 (Tuesday)
30julAll Day02novNever Forget: Quilts from the 9/11 Memorial and Museum
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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 20thanniversary of the
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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 20thanniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, which killed 2,977 people, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six.
Time
July 30 (Friday) - November 2 (Tuesday)
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August
03aug2:30 pm4:30 pmJunior QuiltersYouth Education
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The Museum is delighted with the success of our Junior Quilters & Textile Artists Club (JQTA), which normally meets on the first Tuesday of the month from 2:30 - 4:30
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The Museum is delighted with the success of our Junior Quilters & Textile Artists Club (JQTA), which normally meets on the first Tuesday of the month from 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. These young ladies and gentlemen are exceeding our expectations and fulfilling their own goals of becoming great quilters and textile artists.
Young aspiring quilters and textile artists are invited to join.
Time
(Tuesday) 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm CST
Location
The National Quilt Museum Classroom
215 Jefferson Street, Paducah, Kentucky
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