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December 2020 Ezine December 2020 Ezine This is Kristin Barrus and Jennifer Barclay from Utah. They are standing in front ofWall of Sound by Maria Shell in the SAQA: Layered and Stitched—50 Years of Innovation exhibit. Museum Curator Dr. Sandra Sider lectures pre-pandemic (left) while Marcia Kaylakie wears her mask shortly after Manager’s Report the Museum reopened. By Julie Maffei The Museum did not completely dodge With the help of generous supporters, Museum Manager the virus bullet. We closed completely we are more fortunate than other arts I have some bad for April and May. But we managed organizations. We are open. news and I have to put up (for free!) Virtual Galleries As a final word on the subject, our hearts a lot more good online so everyone could enjoy the go out to all those who lost a loved one, news. Let’s get the quilts from their homes. We lost a home, a job, or a business. The virus bad news out of two months of earned income from profoundly changed our country. We all the way first. I’m tickets, store, and online store sales. hope the worst is behind us. sure you can guess The International Quilt Festival was what it is. cancelled, which eliminated one of our Now, on to the good news, of which there is plenty to report. First of all, Covid Covid Covid is the number #1 bad major fundraising events for the year with our booth at the show. And we’ve some key supporters of the Museum news item for the Museum in 2020. The stepped up with generous donations pandemic impacted countries all over been watching and waiting for visitors to come back to see us. to help the Museum survive the virus’ the world. In the United States, closed impact on revenue. We’d especially like businesses, face masks, social distancing, In response to Covid, we tightened our to thank Frank Klein, Karey and Maurice quarantine, working remotely, and many belts, cut budgets, and scaled back our Bresenhan, Nancy O’Bryant Puentes, other rarely used words entered our operational expenses. Going forward we and Gene Reynolds for going above and everyday consciousness and lives. will have three sets of exhibitions per beyond to donate funds so the Museum year, changing every four months. could sustain the financial impact on The second quarter featured a Thanks to the generosity of the Lower our revenue from the closure and loss wonderful gallery walk through by Colorado River Authority, the city of of visitors. noted quilt scholar Marcia Kaylakie. La Grange, the Texas Women’s League, In addition, we are thankful for the As co-curator of the exhibit Texas the La Grange Lions Club, and Nancy support from the Federal government. Grandmasters: Timeless Quilts, which O’Bryant Puentes, we have raised the We received an SBA loan, an Economic focused on outstanding quilters age 75 funds needed to install long-lasting Impact Disaster Loan, and an and over, Marcia gave us a behind the bronze signs to replace our horribly emergency grant from the National scenes insights into some of the most weathered garden signage. Endowment for the Arts. wonderful quilts and quilters we wanted We started a conversation with a major to honor, including Kathleen McCrady, foundation interested in sponsoring a We are also deeply proud of our Beth Nelson, and many others. Curator, Dr. Sandra Sider. Dr. Sider special symposium on our period garden hit a grand slam this year with the For third quarter, we had a “now for in 2021. We will keep you posted. publication of one book, Exploring something completely different” talk Last, but not least, be prepared to celebrate Your Artistic Voice, co-authorship of by nature photographer and Museum next year! 2021 year will be the ten year a second book Deeds Not Words, a patron Frank Klein, which coincided anniversary of the Texas Quilt Museum! monograph on the superstar quilt artist with our juried exhibit, Flying High: For We have a lot of exciting things in store Cynthia England, the organization of a the Love of Birds, a wonderful selection to honor this important milestone. Stay nationally touring exhibition Deeds of creative quilts on the theme of birds. tuned for upcoming announcements. Not Words, and the design of a We also created a gallery featuring coordinating line of new fabric called Frank’s wonderful photographs of wild Votes for Women from Benartex. birds to supplement the exhibition. Frank’s photographs are wonderful. He Deeds Not Words, the exhibition, book uses state of the art photography lenses and fabric, pays tribute to the women and equipment. With three large Texas suffragists who fought for passage of the ranches, he has plenty of places to hunt th 19 Amendment, earning women the for remarkable bird photos. right to vote. This exhibit will premier Cynthia England discusses her career retrospective at the museum on January 7, 2021. It Finally, our featured solo artist, Cynthia exhibit. features some of the most well-known England, closed out our last talk which artists in the quilting world such as coincided with our exhibition Picture Susan Shie, Teresa Barkley, Caryl Bryer Perfect: Quilts by Cynthia England. Fallert-Gentry, and many others. On a different note, we are also We had a variety of interesting speakers deeply proud to announce we have for our 2020 quarterly season of talks. In received several grants to replace the first quarter, Dr. Sider gave a talk on our deteriorating signage in our the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) Grandmother’s Flower Garden, next exhibition Layered and Stitched: 50 Years of door to the Museum. The garden is one Innovation. Sandra is eminently qualified of only a handful of period gardens in as she has been the President of SAQA, the state of Texas. The plants and design editor of SAQA’s Art Quilt Quarterly and complement the era of our building, th leads art critique workshops for SAQA. which is the turn of the 19 century. Suzanne Labry named Bybee Scholar Continuing a tradition of recognizing and rewarding those who are committed to the study of quilts and quilting history, Suzanne Labry of Austin, Texas was named the most recent Bybee Scholar. The award is presented on behalf of the Faith P. and Charles L. Bybee Foundation and the Texas Quilt Museum. The annual distinction aims to recognize the body of work an individual has accomplished in furtherance of the study of quilts, quilting, and quilt history. Labry received the honor for her landmark book Texas Quilts, Texas Women (Texas A&M University Press), her scholarly research published in Uncoverings (the Journal of the American Suzanne Labry (center) receives her Bybee Scholar certificate from Museum co-founders Karey Bresenhan and Quilt Study Group), and her online Nancy O’Bryant Puentes. articles featuring quilters, quilt groups, and quilt history for the long-running rotunda, and subsequent tour of antique books, magazines, and scholarly articles Quilts.com column “Suzy’s Fancy.” Texas quilts through museums. Also on quilts that we enjoy today, it’s hard “We’ve known Suzanne for decades. the Great Texas Quilt RoundUp of to remember just how little written She, along with Kathleen McCrady prizewinning quilts celebrating Texas material there was about quilts back and the two of us, founded the Texas themes. Suzanne has truly been a lifelong then,” Labry recalls. Sesquicentennial Quilt Association friend of quilts, quilters, and quilting.” “There was no internet. All my research to see that the contributions of Texas “I’m thrilled and honored to be the was done either in libraries, museums, women were not forgotten when our newest Bybee Scholar!” Labry said. “I via written correspondence, or through state celebrated its 150th birthday,” said know and admire all of the previous in-person interviews—all very ‘old Museum co-founders Karey Bresenhan honorees, and I feel privileged to school.’ But Texas was then—and still and Nancy O’ Bryant Puentes. become a member of this group of very is—fertile ground for anything to do “Suzanne was an integral supporter special women who inspire me.” with quilts. Quilts and the women who in the 1980’s of all the components Labry started writing Texas Quilts, Texas made them were a vital part of Texas of TSQA: the Texas Quilt Search, the Women back in the late 1970s, although history, and I believe they will continue historic Quilt Conservation Seminar, it wasn’t published until 1984. And the to be a relevant part of its future.” Texas Quilt Appreciation Week, the research took a bit of time. “Given the As for the state of quilt scholarship in exhibition of quilts in the Texas Capitol almost overwhelming abundance of 2020, Labry says we live in an exciting time. “So many people are doing such fascinating research on every imaginable Persistence Through a Pandemic aspect of quilting,” she says. “Groups By Madison Vrazel, Coordinator of Visitor Services such as the American Quilt Study Group, and its various state affiliates, I have the Due to the pandemic, the Museum produce terrific scholarly work. And privilege of extended our next round of quilts other groups, museums, and individuals meeting visitors through September. Included in this as well. There really has never been a from all around show was My México by Quilters de better time for quilt scholarship!” the world México, an excellent display of quilts Award namesakes Faith P. and Charles at the Texas covering México’s rich history. The L. Bybee were well-known Houston Quilt Museum hall exhibit showcased photos of the philanthropists and noted collectors every year.
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