Our 2020 Schedule
09octAll Day12janInspired by Endangered Species

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Lively, colorful, and skillfully made fabric “portraits” of endangered species bring them to real, vibrant life. Each portrait features fascinating animal and plant facts from rescuers, scientists, conservationists, and more:
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Lively, colorful, and skillfully made fabric “portraits” of endangered species bring them to real, vibrant life. Each portrait features fascinating animal and plant facts from rescuers, scientists, conservationists, and more: where they live, what their superpowers are, why they are at risk, and how we can help. Curated by Donna DeSoto.
Time
October 9 (Friday) - January 12 (Tuesday)
Location
215 Jefferson Street, Paducah, Kentucky
06novAll Day19jan60k Log Cabin Quiltsby Amy Pabst

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This series focuses on miniature scale and explores the unlimited layout and design options of the Log Cabin pattern. Amy used over 60,000 individual fabric pieces for the quilts
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This series focuses on miniature scale and explores the unlimited layout and design options of the Log Cabin pattern. Amy used over 60,000 individual fabric pieces for the quilts in this exhibition.
Time
November 6 (Friday) - January 19 (Tuesday)
Location
215 Jefferson Street, Paducah, Kentucky
11decAll Day09marSouthern Quiltswith Mary W. Kerr

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Quilt expert Mary W. Kerr joins 13 other textile historians to show why Southern quilts have a distinctiveness setting them apart, including factors like their patterns, use of tiny pieces,
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Quilt expert Mary W. Kerr joins 13 other textile historians to show why Southern quilts have a distinctiveness setting them apart, including factors like their patterns, use of tiny pieces, and specific color choices.
Time
December 11 (Friday) - March 9 (Tuesday)
Location
215 Jefferson Street, Paducah, Kentucky
15janAll Day06aprSchool Block Challenge

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School Block Challenge is an annual quilt block competition and exhibit, sponsored byModa Fabrics, for children grades K-12 nationwide. Moda generously provides three challenge fabrics that must be included in
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School Block Challenge is an annual quilt block competition and exhibit, sponsored byModa Fabrics, for children grades K-12 nationwide.
Moda generously provides three challenge fabrics that must be included in every block entry. Students can put their math skills & creativity to work in creating a quilt square of their own design.
Entries are judged in the following categories: K-4th grade, 5th–8th grade, 9th–12th grade. Cash prizes are awarded to the teacher/parent of the winning students for arts/quilt education. All entries are included in the exhibition at The National Quilt Museum.
Time
January 15 (Friday) - April 6 (Tuesday)
22janAll Day23marNature’s Layers by Karen Linduska

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Karen loves texture and working in layers. Her art quilts are made from the perspective of seeing them from a side view; looking at the layers of the plant shapes,
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Karen loves texture and working in layers. Her art quilts are made from the perspective of seeing them from a side view; looking at the layers of the plant shapes, seeing the flowers and insects peeking out. This show is a variety of Karen’s work from several series she has created in the last 10 years: Fantasy Garden, Glorious, and Marshland.
Time
January 22 (Friday) - March 23 (Tuesday)
12marAll Day08junSew Many Quilts: Celebrating 30 Years of The National Quilt Museum!

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On the day the museum opened in 1991, the entire collection included 85 quilts that were on loan from the founders, Bill and Meredith Schroeder. Over time, the collection has
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On the day the museum opened in 1991, the entire collection included 85 quilts that were on loan from the founders, Bill and Meredith Schroeder. Over time, the collection has expanded both in quantity and diversity and today the museum’s collection exceeds 600 works of art and continues to grow.
This exhibition, of collection quilts representing 30 years, celebrates the significant impact of The National Quilt Museum on the quilting and arts community since its founding.
Time
March 12 (Friday) - June 8 (Tuesday)
26marAll Day01junPattern Fusion by Arturo Alonzo Sandoval

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Pattern Fusion explores quilt motifs using recycled materials for the vertical and horizontal elements. Repurposed 35 mm microfilm has an innate graphic pattern created by the microfilm text and photos.
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Pattern Fusion explores quilt motifs using recycled materials for the vertical and horizontal elements. Repurposed 35 mm microfilm has an innate graphic pattern created by the microfilm text and photos. The addition of various colored Mylar, machine stitching, embroidery, and layers of netting creates several fused patterns when these materials are joined together by interlacing. Some of the results are subtle and others bold.
Whether using a floor loom, sewing machine, interlacing, or simply combining recycled or new materials in collage or assemblage processes, Sandoval pursues the cutting edge in his chosen art medium.
Time
March 26 (Friday) - June 1 (Tuesday)
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 30 quilts selected by Sandra Sider, Curator of the Texas Quilt Museum and editor of SAQA’s Art Quilt Quarterly.
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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)
13augAll Day12octSilhouette Quilts by Maggie Weiss

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Maggie’s goal as an artist is to create a compelling surface that invites the viewer to react, take a closer look and to strive to bring beauty or awareness into
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Maggie’s goal as an artist is to create a compelling surface that invites the viewer to react, take a closer look and to strive to bring beauty or awareness into the world.
The Silhouette Quilts exhibition combines the principles of composition, design and collage with art cloth and quilt making, to make it the best of both worlds.
Time
August 13 (Friday) - October 12 (Tuesday)
17sepAll Day11janSAQA Primal Forces: Earth

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Forty artists have been selected for the SAQA Global Exhibition Primal Forces: Earth by juror Sue Cavanaugh. This exhibition is the first in a three-part series to premiere at The
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Forty artists have been selected for the SAQA Global Exhibition Primal Forces: Earth by juror Sue Cavanaugh. This exhibition is the first in a three-part series to premiere at The National Quilt Museum over a six-year period.
This exhibition illustrates that all life on this planet depends on earth: it nurtures us through the soil beneath our feet. However, it can be a destructive force as well. Seismic activity and mudslides have shaped the landscape for millions of years and taken a toll on living beings as well. We are in an era of tremendous change in earth as well, due to shifting balances brought on by human activity.
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September 17 (Friday) - January 11 (Tuesday)
15octAll Day07decPainted Quilts by Denise Mucci Furnish

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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,
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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.
Time
October 15 (Friday) - December 7 (Tuesday)
05novAll Day01marThe Roots and Refuge Series by Valerie C. White

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As a textile artist, Valerie chooses to express herself using dye, fabric markers, discharging agents, textile paint and a host of wet materials.In her Roots and Refuge Series, Valerie encourages
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As a textile artist, Valerie chooses to express herself using dye, fabric markers, discharging agents, textile paint and a host of wet materials.In her Roots and Refuge Series, Valerie encourages one to consider roots as metaphors. Roots, like people, are intertwined and connected. Her intent is to challenge the viewer to see the beauty and complexity of roots.
Time
November 5 (Friday) - March 1 (Tuesday)
10decAll Day22febJuxtapassion by John Lefelhocz

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John gained international recognition as a quilt artist in the late 1990's and has since shown works nationally and internationally in this medium.John also creates works in many other media
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John gained international recognition as a quilt artist in the late 1990’s and has since shown works nationally and internationally in this medium.John also creates works in many other media including sculpture, painting, cartography, and the graphic arts.
Time
December 10 (Friday) - February 22 (Tuesday)
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09octAll Day12janInspired by Endangered Species

Event Details
Lively, colorful, and skillfully made fabric “portraits” of endangered species bring them to real, vibrant life. Each portrait features fascinating animal and plant facts from rescuers, scientists, conservationists, and more:
Event Details
Lively, colorful, and skillfully made fabric “portraits” of endangered species bring them to real, vibrant life. Each portrait features fascinating animal and plant facts from rescuers, scientists, conservationists, and more: where they live, what their superpowers are, why they are at risk, and how we can help. Curated by Donna DeSoto.
Time
October 9 (Friday) - January 12 (Tuesday)
Location
215 Jefferson Street, Paducah, Kentucky
06novAll Day19jan60k Log Cabin Quiltsby Amy Pabst

Event Details
This series focuses on miniature scale and explores the unlimited layout and design options of the Log Cabin pattern. Amy used over 60,000 individual fabric pieces for the quilts
Event Details
This series focuses on miniature scale and explores the unlimited layout and design options of the Log Cabin pattern. Amy used over 60,000 individual fabric pieces for the quilts in this exhibition.
Time
November 6 (Friday) - January 19 (Tuesday)
Location
215 Jefferson Street, Paducah, Kentucky
11decAll Day09marSouthern Quiltswith Mary W. Kerr

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Quilt expert Mary W. Kerr joins 13 other textile historians to show why Southern quilts have a distinctiveness setting them apart, including factors like their patterns, use of tiny pieces,
Event Details
Quilt expert Mary W. Kerr joins 13 other textile historians to show why Southern quilts have a distinctiveness setting them apart, including factors like their patterns, use of tiny pieces, and specific color choices.
Time
December 11 (Friday) - March 9 (Tuesday)
Location
215 Jefferson Street, Paducah, Kentucky
15janAll Day06aprSchool Block Challenge

Event Details
School Block Challenge is an annual quilt block competition and exhibit, sponsored byModa Fabrics, for children grades K-12 nationwide. Moda generously provides three challenge fabrics that must be included in
more
Event Details
School Block Challenge is an annual quilt block competition and exhibit, sponsored byModa Fabrics, for children grades K-12 nationwide.
Moda generously provides three challenge fabrics that must be included in every block entry. Students can put their math skills & creativity to work in creating a quilt square of their own design.
Entries are judged in the following categories: K-4th grade, 5th–8th grade, 9th–12th grade. Cash prizes are awarded to the teacher/parent of the winning students for arts/quilt education. All entries are included in the exhibition at The National Quilt Museum.
Time
January 15 (Friday) - April 6 (Tuesday)
22janAll Day23marNature’s Layers by Karen Linduska

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Karen loves texture and working in layers. Her art quilts are made from the perspective of seeing them from a side view; looking at the layers of the plant shapes,
Event Details
Karen loves texture and working in layers. Her art quilts are made from the perspective of seeing them from a side view; looking at the layers of the plant shapes, seeing the flowers and insects peeking out. This show is a variety of Karen’s work from several series she has created in the last 10 years: Fantasy Garden, Glorious, and Marshland.
Time
January 22 (Friday) - March 23 (Tuesday)
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02feb2:30 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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