SOLD OUT - The 49th Annual Colonial Dames Lecture & Tea: Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories

Wednesday, May 3, 2023 from 2–4 p.m.

Lecture begins in the Fath Auditorium at 2:00 p.m. with tea to follow in the Great Hall and Terrace Café.

Free for Art Museum and NSCDA Ohio Members. $10 for the general public.

Reservations required. 

Jennifer Swope, Associate Curator of Textile and Fashion Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will discuss masterworks from the MFA’s quilt and bed cover collection. Swope’s talk will focus on how this beloved art form’s intimate and tactile nature reflects nuanced narratives of the nation’s history. The presentation will include works from Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories, the MFA exhibition and accompanying award-winning publication celebrating the individual artistry of quilts and acknowledging their complex legacies ingrained in the fabric of American life.

Presented by The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of Ohio.

Colonial Dames Lecture and Tea graciously underwritten by the L. W. Scott Alter Trust.

Image credit: Double Wedding Ring, about 1940, unidentified artist, Possibly Missouri, United States, Cotton plain weave, pieced and quilted, Gift of the Pilgrim / Roy Collection, Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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