Layered legacies : quilts from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts at Old Salem.

Author/creator North Carolina Museum of Art
Format Book
PublicationRaleigh, North Carolina : North Carolina Museum of Art, [2024]
Copyright Date©2024
Description178 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm
Subjects

Other author/creatorLane, Lea (Lea C.), contributor.
Other author/creatorBrown, Aleia, contributor.
Other author/creatorGarwood, Jenny, contributor.
Other author/creatorMuseum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, collector.
Contents Directors' foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Daniel K. Ackermann and Lauren Applebaum -- Belongings : Southern quilts and the material of memory / Lea C. Lane -- World making and world undoing : Black women's creative labor on the plantation / Aleia M. Brown -- Piecing together the tree of life : quilts from the Marion family of South Carolina / Jenny Garwood -- Catalogue -- Kindred quilts -- About the authors.
Abstract "Quilts materialize the bonds of home, family, and community as they are passed down from generation to generation. Yet they are also records of our shared history, interwoven with broader social, cultural, and economic legacies that make up the complex fabric of the United States. Layered Legacies invites audiences to consider the multilayered stories stitched into quilts made in the American South between the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Featured are more than 30 bed coverings and related objects from the collection of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts and Old Salem collections. Foregrounding the masterful artistry of women, these bed coverings are expressions of love, objects of exquisite craftsmanship, and material documents containing hidden stories of long-forgotten women, both white and Black, wealthy and enslaved, whose hands created and cared for these important textiles." -- From exhibition webpage: https://ncartmuseum.org/exhibition/layered-legacies-quilts-from-the-museum-of-early-southern-decorative-arts-at-old-salem/
General noteThis catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition Layered Legacies: Quilts from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts at Old Salem organized by and held at the North Carolina Museum of Art, March 9-July 21, 2024.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Genre/formExhibition catalogs.
LCCN 2023041800
ISBN9780882599144 (paperback)
ISBN0882599143 (paperback)

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Joyner NC Stacks NK9112 .L39 2024 ✔ Available Place Hold