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SATURDAY | MAY 23| 1:30-3:00 PM
NORMA KERSHAW AUDITORIUM | LECTURE

In this opening lecture, guest curator Tara Miller examines selected objects from the exhibition to reveal the commercial forces behind their fabric. A 1776 wool whole cloth becomes a story of boycotts and domestic industry. Chintz appliqué traces the path of enslaved labor's cotton across the Atlantic to Britain and back. Arsenic greens expose how industrial chemistry transformed the quiltmaker's palette. Depression-era newspaper quilting bees show how entrepreneurs and mass media reinvented quilt commerce in hard times. Feed sack cloth bears witness to the hardships of sharecroppers in rural Alabama. And a pictorial California quilt made by nineteen Orange County women in 1975 captures the spirit of the Great Quilt Revival, a movement that reclaimed quilt making as creative, communal, and culturally relevant.

Ticketed Event: Members $15 | General $20

Recorded Online Screening: Members $5 | General $10 | A link to view the lecture recording will be emailed to ticketholders one week after the onsite event. On-demand streaming is available for 24 hours beginning on May 30 at 11 AM PST.

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Image credit: Crazy Quilt

Crazy Quilt, 1888. Gift of Jennifer K. Hans, Trustee, Vincent and Geraldine Orbish Trust, 2013.4.1. © Bowers Museum.