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“Quilt making,” as one quilt maker says, “is the greatest mass movement nobody ever heard of.” The population of the American quilt world outnumbers those of many small countries,…

Unique among objects, quilts are both lowly “women’s work” and great art. They are something made from nothing; they are both nurturing and inspiring. They can communicate both…

Part 6 traces institutional attitudes toward quilts as objects, rationales for their selection, and the public response to their exhibition.

The quilt’s unique ability to preserve, not only our own family histories, but the history of America

The quilt is the perfect test case for a dozen theories about what makes art. The art vs. craft debate

The Quilt Marketplace

Why Quilts Matter: History, Art & Politics is a nine-part documentary series that will change the way you think about quilts. Uncover the unsuspected size and depth of quilt…

Violence at Cajun dances, bars, and night clubs increased exponentially after the Civil War. Locals coped with economic collapse and the horrors of war by formulating an honor…

A visual memoir of one family's life in Iraq before escaping to a new home in Canada in the fall of 1970. Featuring a never-before-seen collection of archival images, home movies,…

Death Row at Ellis is no worse-- and it is probably somewhat better--than most other Death Rows in America. It is the only death Row in which a documentary film could have been…

The Upperville Colt & Horse Show is the oldest horse show in America. Established in 1853 by Colonel Richard Henry Dulany, who also founded the Piedmont Fox Hounds, the show…

Elizabeth James-Perry's artwork is intimately tied to her Aquinnah Wampanoag tribal heritage. Her wampum belts are made using indigenous materials -- locally harvested, handspun…

Short film about Jesse Marsolais who works in old ways – traditional methods of letterpress printing and letter carving in stone and wood – to meet customers’ needs one letter at…

The former coal town of Widen, West Virginia. Once a model of paternalistic domination, Widen had been sold to the Pittston corpration in 1963.

The Virginia Peanut Story tells the rise and fall of the dominance of the Virginia/Carolina peanut industry. Aided by returning Union soldiers after the Civil War, railroads and…