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. country’s beautiful landscape and of American decorative arts. They Unfortunately, this year, some of these culture, and a brief history of quilting established the Texas Pioneer Arts visitors could not attend the Museum in México. Foundation to preserve the architectural due to the global pandemic. and decorative arts legacy of German- Currently, our Flying High: For the American immigrants in Central Texas. However, even with the Museum Love of Birds bird exhibit features quilts Previous Bybee Scholars include Teresa closed for two months and with about birds from around the world. Duryea Wong, Kate Adams, Kathy uncertainty in the world, our visitors Photography from art quilt collector and Moore, Marcia Kaylakie, and Dr. persisted. Online or in person, they photographer Frank Klein is featured Marian Ann Montgomery. came to see the fabulous selection of in the hall exhibit, with information on quilts from quilters around the world. bluebirds and instructions on how to I would like to thank the wonderful build bluebird houses. visitors this year, and every visitor Again, thank you to all of our visitors in the past. You are what keeps the and contributors this year. Because of Museum going. you, the Museum thrives, and is able to Additionally, the hall exhibits featured bring quilt art from across the world! our Curator Dr. Sandra Sider, quilts from Mexico, and bird/nature Our hall exhibit photography of Frank Klein’s bird photography by Frank Klein. Our and nature photography to accompany the quilt exhibits in January featured quilts from exhibit Flying High: For the Love of Birds. the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) and winners from QuiltCon. Dr. Sider has worked for SAQA for a number of years, and is the editor of SAQA’s magazine. The exhibit showcased other articles and books written by Dr. Sider,
Suzanne Labry with her Bybee Certificate. along with other information on her Photo by Alex Labry. quilting career. Meet Our Visitors 2020 This year, we had visitors from all over–here are just a few of them!
This group who came to the Museum called LIFT Houston.
These folks are from the Bellerive YWCA in Hous- ton—our first tour group of 2020! They are in front of some quilts from the exhibit SAQA: Layered and Stitched—50 Years of Innovation. Above: This is Tara Ross and Brenda Jarvar from Minnesota. They are standing in front of Open Season in the exhibit Picture Perfect: Quilts by Cynthia England.
Left: Dawn Golstab from Leander, Texas, standing by her quilt AndThenThisHappened from the Modern Quilt Guild exhibit QuiltCon Prizewinners 2013-2018.
These are the Jones sisters, originally from Hearne, Texas. They are in front ofSpanish Skirts by Beth Nelson in the exhibit Texas Grand Masters: Timeless Quilts. From the Garden By Nancy O’Bryant Puentes Museum co-founder
Gardening in a Pandemic! In the Museum garden’s case, we we get during International Quilt have not yet planted our cool weather Festival in Houston. Those busloads, Gardening, and even planning for annuals, nor have we yet surveyed for like the Festival, could not take place gardening in Grandmother’s Flower any dead, or ailing plants that must this fall. Garden during the Covid-19 pandemic, be replaced. In addition, due to the pandemic, the has been affected, as have so many If 2020 were a normal year, we would Museum was closed a portion of the activities for so many people. have newly planted winter-hardy year and visitors have been fewer in bedding plants that would provide number than usual. Therefore, visitors color for the many busloads of visitors to the garden have also been fewer. So we are taking this opportunity to let the garden rest, forego our cool weather plantings, and instead put the funds we would spend on them into improving our soil, to ready it for spring. As all experienced gardeners know, and new gardeners soon learn, the time, effort, and expenditure put into improving garden soil is repaid many times over in healthier plants and more blooms. Therefore, our annual assessment of the garden which takes place each winter has started a couple of months earlier. We do have certain tasks on our to-do list already, though. We’re thrilled that we have funds donated by the Lower Colorado River Authority for us to match that will allow us to replace our signage, which has suffered in the relentless Texas sun. So thank you to the LCRA and also to the Bybee Foundation, the Texas Women’s League, the La Grange Lions Club, and a private donor for contributions that have helped us make our match! We’re also investigating a safe treatment for our fence to prevent further deterioration and provide future protection, one that will not harm our perennial shrubs bordering the fence. And we’ve had on our list for a couple of years the task of thinning out the climbing rose canes over our pergola. We will try to tackle that next February when we have our annual rose pruning session. So we’ll look beyond 2020 to 2021 to what we want…to see our garden flowering! We hope you’ll look for the same in yours! Photos by Nancy O’Bryant Puentes and Vicki Mangum. Museum Store News
Global Textiles and Artist Designer We are also carrying the new line Fabric now available for purchase is the Votes for Women, designed by our big news flash for the Museum store Museum Curator Dr. Sandra Sider, in and online store this year. conjunction with the nationally touring As a Museum, it is our mission to exhibition Deeds Not Words. The educate visitors about all aspects of exhibition is a grouping of narrative the quilting world. It is also our goal quilts celebrating women’s fight for the to stimulate quilters to explore their right to vote. We will be showcasing the talents in new ways. exhibit in January of 2021. It’s a must see featuring top notch quilters from Textiles are a big part of that world. around the world. Fabric is the medium used by quilt artists to create quilts. Check out the fabric when you visit the Museum, or you can order online if We decided to venture into fabric you can’t make it to the Museum. categories the average quilt store doesn’t carry: global textiles and artist-designed Use these special fabrics to take you into fabrics. We’ve launched six lines, all of new areas of inspiration and design. which are available online and in the store. Visit the store online at Just two of the many different T-shirts the Museum carries Artists include Paula Nadelstern, Katie www.texasquiltmuseumstore.com Pasquini Masopust, Keiko Goke, and Denise Burkitt. We kicked off our global collection Banksia Surprise by with two wonderful worlds of fabric: Denise Burkitt Aboriginal and African Waxwork.
Artful Snowflake: Wings by Paula Nadelstern
Boxes by Keiko Goke FROM THE LIBRARY By Dr. Jim Ayres, Museum Librarian and Archivist
The Pearce Visioning Human Rights in the New Memorial Millennium: Quilting the World’s Library Conscience; Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, continues to African American Women in the offer visitors an Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920. opportunity to Currently, our Library holds over browse, read, 9,000 books and periodicals, or do research making it certainly the largest on the history of textiles and research library on the Southwest. quilting and explore the impressive While the virus has slowed Museum collection of antique British and attendance, we still have visitors French textiles in the Mary and Joe inquiring about the coloring, age, Koval Collection. texture, and patterns of quilting and During the past year, we have enjoying the images and “stories” in added 62 books, most of them the Toile de Jouy textiles. exploring the cultural contexts In the future, when it is safe to of quilting, e.g., Susanne Miller invite groups into the Library, we Jones, Our Story Quilts: Human hope to hold seminars on special Rights Stories in Quilts; Thomas topics and texts. We look forward Danny Amazonas Stallion tote-bag Knauer, Why We Quilt: The Power to a healthy and virus-free year. of Art, Activism, Community, and Creativity; Carolyn Mazloomi,
Votes for Women: Buttons Bush Banana by Donna Abbots by Dr. Sandra Sider (Australian Aboriginal Fabric)
This water bottle is one of many Texas Quilt Museum Ekuseni (African Wax Fabrics) commemorative items Curator’s Report By Dr. Sandra Sider Museum Curator
EXHIBITS
Beginning in 2021, the Texas Quilt Museum is presenting three exhibition seasons instead of four, giving our visitors the opportunity of returning to see favorites in each show, and of sharing them with family and friends. In 2020, we installed 175 quilts in seven exhibitions, spanning a multitude of styles within the quilt genre. These included two competitions juried by our co-founders, Karey Bresenhan and Nancy O’Bryant Puentes.
Winter SAQA’s Layered & Stitched: Fifty Years of Innovation in Galleries I and Star (48" x 48") III opened our Winter season with by Leslie Gabrielse. 52 studio art quilts dating from From the SAQA exhibit Layered and Stitched: 1968 to 2016, representing the Fifty Years of Innovation. extraordinary range of talented artists working in contemporary quilt art. Featuring a balance of abstract and representational styles, Layered & Stitched included several foreign artists, with a wide geographic distribution of makers in general. QuiltCon Prizewinners 2013-2018 featured 16 works in Gallery II honored by judges in the Modern Quilt Guild. The distinctive aesthetic of MQG members embraces asymmetry, bold prints Left: and colors, improvisational piecing, Double Wedding Ring minimalism, and expansive (78" x 78") by Tara Faughnan. negative space. From the exhibit QuiltCon Prizewinners 2013-2018. Spring/Summer Science and art were colorfully intertwined in Fun with Fractals and Other Mathematical Quilts, a two-person exhibition of 10 quilts curated exclusively for the Texas Quilt Museum. Elaine Krajenke Ellison, a retired mathematics teacher, is an author and lecturer who creates unique quilts inspired by a variety of mathematical topics. She has created nearly 70 quilts spanning 4000 years of mathematics. Dr. Vaughn Nelson created his first quilt in 2006, using a design he created with Penrose Tiles pieced by his wife Beth and longarm quilted by his daughter. Then he caught the “quilting bug” in earnest, making more than 150 quilts that he has designed, pieced, and quilted. My México by Quilters de México, 18 quilts in Gallery III, presented art quilts imbued with the colors, history, and spiritual worlds of our neighbor to the south. Patchwork and quilting began in Mexico in a rather isolated way around 30 years ago. Little by little, the craft has been taking root, and the number of quilters is constantly growing, with about 5,000 quilters in Mexico today. The Museum was proud to premier this exhibition in the United States. Texas Grand Masters: Timeless Quilts, 26 quilts in Gallery I, celebrated makers Fibonacci 2 by Dr. Vaughn Nelson. From the exhibit in their golden years. This juried competition was open exclusively to those age Fun with Fractals and Other Mathematical Quilts. 75 and older. The quilts in this beautiful exhibition displayed ingenuity and fine technique from across the state, with subjects ranging from butterflies to the Texas Capitol building, in piecing, appliqué, and exquisite stitchery.
Right: Yellow Rose of Texas by Arminda Lopez. From the exhibit Texas Grand Masters: Timeless Quilts.
Left:Mariachi Tunes by Elizabeth A. Rising. From the exhibit My Mexico by Quilters de México. Autumn The Lucille Gaebler Klein fund generously supported our other juried exhibition for 2020,Flying High: For the Love of Birds, with 30 quilts in Galleries I and II. This visually exciting collection of art quilts and contemporary traditional creations informed visitors about our feathered friends and the many ways in which they help sustain our ecosystems. More than a dozen works depicted water birds, including pelicans, egrets, ducks, an osprey, and a swan. Several makers had a more abstract approach, using the colors and patterns of feathers for their striking artworks, while traditionally appliquéd quilts treated viewers to vividly ornamental interpretations of birds. Picture Perfect: Quilts by Cynthia England featured 13 remarkably lifelike works in Gallery III. England, who perfected her representational piecing technique in 1992, is recognized internationally as an author, pattern designer, and fiber artist, whose numerous awards include three Best of Show prizes from the International Quilt Association at the Houston International Quilt Festival. Experimentation with quilting techniques led her to develop her own unique style, “picture piecing,” for interpreting photographs in spectacular pictorial quilts.
The Great One(44" x 30") by Melanie Marr. From the exhibit Flying High: For the Love of Birds.
Below: Piece and Quiet (62" x 78") by Cynthia England, 1993, photo by Ken Wagner. From the exhibit Picture Perfect: Quilts by Cynthia England. BEYOND THE MUSEUM TOURING EXHIBITIONS
Dr. Sider is the editor of Art Quilt Quarterly magazine; author of Exploring Your Flying High: For the Love of Birds is Artistic Voice in Contemporary Quilt Art and co-author of Deeds Not Words: Celebrating available for venues to book. To inquire 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage (Schiffer Publishing); lectured at QuiltCon on the value about booking the touring exhibition, of critiques; designed Votes for Women fabric line for Benartex; teaching History of please contact: Textiles in the MFA Textiles program at Parsons School of Design. [email protected].
UPCOMING EXHIBITS & LECTURES 2021 (Note: Dates for lectures and gallery walks TBD)
THROUGH DECEMBER 19, 2020 MARCH 25-SEPTEMBER 26, 2021 Flying High: For the Love of Birds AQSG 2018 Quilt Study: 200 Years of Solid- Picture Perfect: Quilts by Cynthia England Color Quilts, 1800-2000 (through late June) Natural Wonders from The Frank Klein JANUARY 7-MARCH 21, 2021 Collection Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Sapphire Celebration Women’s Suffrage SEPTEMBER 30-DECEMBER 19, 2021 Red, White, and Blue—Sponsored by the Lucille Gaebler Klein Fund Antique Quilts from the Carolyn Miller Collection (Vicki Mangum, guest curator) Storylines: Wendy Huhn, Jane Burch Cochran, and Joan Schulze
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he Texas Quilt Museum is a History in the Making been restored. During the process, an 501(c)(3) not-for-profit entity. The Texas Quilt Museum was a dream allied building was acquired, increasing It is housed in two historic and a goal for decades. As its founders exhibition space to more than 10,000 T1890s buildings, which provide a square feet in three galleries. brought thousands of great quilts to fine showcase for both antique and International Quilt Festival in Houston The museum officially opened on contemporary quilt art with their each year since 1974, they realized November 13, 2011. Since then, it high ceilings, brick walls, and original many people were unable to see them has received a Main Street award, was hardwood floors. Home for the new because they were on view a relatively a finalist for the Texas Downtown museum is the picturesque Central short time. They wanted a place where Association’s Presidents Award, and won Texas town of La Grange, located on even more people could discover and the prestigious 2012 Preservation Texas the winding Colorado River between appreciate quilts as art in a setting that award for transforming its two buildings two major highways, making it within showcased them for longer periods. in the city’s historic district. It was also easy driving distance of the state’s major voted Best Museum in Fayette County. cities and airline hubs. It also features In La Grange, a small town in the on-site the adjacent Grandmother’s rolling hills of Central Texas, they In Texas: International Reach Flower Garden, the Pearce Memorial discovered a wonderful 19th century And while the Texas Quilt Museum Library and Material Culture Center, building that had lost its luster over may be located in Texas, it’s a museum and a Museum store. time. Over two years, with the help of that features great quilt art, both skilled artisans guided by an architect traditional and contemporary, from all well-known for re-purposing historically over the world...for visitors from all significant buildings, that luster has over the world.
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FOR MAKING OUR NINTH YEAR A SUCCESS! All of us at the Texas Quilt Museum would also like to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas, a joyous holiday season, and a Happy New Year! We have a lot of exciting things planned for 2021– our tenth anniversary year!, and hope that you will come by and see us soon!
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