University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Public Access Theses and Dissertations from Education and Human Sciences, College of the College of Education and Human Sciences (CEHS) Spring 4-14-2011 The California Art Quilt Revolution Nancy C. Bavor University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cehsdiss Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, and the Education Commons Bavor, Nancy C., "The California Art Quilt Revolution" (2011). Public Access Theses and Dissertations from the College of Education and Human Sciences. 98. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cehsdiss/98 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Education and Human Sciences, College of (CEHS) at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Public Access Theses and Dissertations from the College of Education and Human Sciences by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. THE CALIFORNIA ART QUILT REVOLUTION by Nancy Curry Bavor A THESIS Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts Major: Textiles, Clothing & Design Under the Supervision of Professor Michael F. James Lincoln, Nebraska April 2011 THE CALIFORNIA ART QUILT REVOLUTION Nancy Curry Bavor, M.A. University of Nebraska, 2011 Adviser: Michael F. James The American studio art quilt movement that emerged in the last decades of the twentieth century had its primary origins in Ohio and California, and to a lesser degree, Massachusetts. There is no study that considers the early quilt artists in California as a group nor are there studies that consider their work from an art historical viewpoint.