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  • Uncoverings 2016 Volume 37- Foreward by Lynne Zacek Bassett

    Uncoverings 2016 Volume 37- Foreward by Lynne Zacek Bassett

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    Foreward   A  FACEBOOK  FRIEND  AND I  have recently been debating the term “artisan quilter;’ as used by Pottery Barn to promote its […]

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  • Uncoverings 2012 Volume 33 – Preface and Table of Contents By Lynne Zacek Bassett

    Uncoverings 2012 Volume 33 – Preface and Table of Contents By Lynne Zacek Bassett

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    Preface The authors published in this volume presented their papers at the annual seminar of the American Quilt Study Group in Lincoln, Nebraska, […]

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  • Uncoverings 2012 Volume 33 – Common Threads by Nancy Bavor

    Uncoverings 2012 Volume 33 – Common Threads by Nancy Bavor

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    The emergence of the American studio art quilt movement in the 1960s is the result of a complex intersection of art, craft, universities, and the tradition.al American quilt. Interviews with nine northernCalifornia artists who made art quilts between 1966 and 1986 reveal addition.al significant person.almotivations that inspired them w focus their creative efforts on quilts, This unique. combination of external cultural influe.nces and internal individual characteristics resulted in the birth of new art andquilt movements. Based on artist interviews conducted by the author in late 2009 , this paper focuses on theparallels and differences in the artists’ person.al lives that contributed w their becoming quilt artists andinflue.nced how they approached their careers as artists. Their swries provide a glimpse inw the lives of the pioneers who changed the course of quilt hiswry when they transformed a functional domestic objectinw an art form, inspiring subsequent generations of quiltmakers and artists.

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  • Uncoverings 2012 Volume 33- Hortense Horton Beck Tells Her Story by Gloria Craft Comstock

    Uncoverings 2012 Volume 33- Hortense Horton Beck Tells Her Story by Gloria Craft Comstock

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    The Hortense Horwn Beck Collection, presented in 2008 for the education collection of theInternational Quilt Study Center in Lincoln, Nebraska, is the only assemb”/age of”late,twentieth,century reproduction American masterpiece quilts, according w the IQSC’s direcwr, Dr. Patricia Crews. The Hortense Horton Beck Collection is a showcase of complex andchallenging “museum ‘picture”‘ quilts (as the maker called such picwrial appuque quilts),revealing technical skills that rival those of the original quiltmakers. This generous gift allows these reproductions of significant American quilts tv be shared ‘With diverse audiences in a broadrange of exhibition spaces and conditions. Using Hortense Beck’s auwbiography and notebooks, oral histvries, ephemera, newspaperarticles, and the quilts themselves, this paper explores the motivations and processes behindHortense’s mission w interpret and recreate some of America’s iconic applique quilts.

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