Arts & Crafts, Traditional Films

Quilt scholarship has grown into a serious discipline generating material of interest—not just to the quilt world — but to a dozen other important disciplines from material…

“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

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…

Quilts was a ground breaking film used by folklorists, anthropologists and historians of art and womens history that presented the lives, art, work and philosophy of ordinary…

In 2002 the art world was rocked to its foundations by a group of unusual, abstract quilts made by African American women from an obscure hamlet in southern Alabama. People lined…

Prairie Quilts explores the wonderful works of art, expressions of love, and legacies of comfort being made by contemporary quilters.