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   from the issue of April 8, 2004

     
 
Frontier quilts now on display

The legacy of frontier quiltmakers is celebrated in Patchwork Lives, a quilt exhibition assembled from the collections of the International Quilt Study Center and the Nebraska State Historical Society. The exhibition will run now through April 2006 at the Museum of Nebraska History at 15th and P streets.

Exhibition hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and 1-4:30 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Four rotations of quilts will be available to viewers over the two-year period, with each rotation featuring 16 quilts.

For pioneer women and succeeding generations, quilts provided bedding and served as a means of self-expression. Quilts expressed personal stories of triumph and loss, announced political views and acted as triggers for memories of people or events. The quilts of Patchwork Lives provide examples of these works.

A brown-bag lecture by Stephanie Whitson, guest curator of Patchwork Lives, will be at noon April 15 in the Blackman Auditorium at the Museum of Nebraska History.

For more information, call Carolyn Ducey at 472-6301 or Deb Arenz at 471-4759.


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ARTS HEADLINES FOR APRIL 8

Grease is still the word, long after the 1950s
Frontier quilts now on display
Students to read published poetry
Third thesis exhibition opens April 19
West will read works April 14

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