Victoria Findlay Wolfe’s Playing With Purpose: A Quilt Retrospective

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. 

Denise uses discarded quilts, a craft medium most commonly associated with women’s domestic work, recognizing that these artifacts have value as material repositories/artifacts embedded with the decisions of their makers–aesthetic, utilitarian, and creative. She appropriates the remains of quilts and paints into them, interacting with their form, pattern, and surface.