The "Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts" exhibit was sponsored by the American Folk Art Museum and features 650 quilts owned by Joanna Semel Rose. This exhibit was held at the Park Avenue Armory in NYC on March 25-30, 2011. This event was free, and you could take as many pictures as you wanted, in fact they even having a photo contest for the best photos taken at the event.
The exhibit is just visually stunning and overwhelming! If you are used to regular quilt shows this may disorient you a bit, as not all the quilts are at eye level. Some you are able to examine close up, but others are a couple stories
above you. This is definitely not a linear show. Everything is in circles and at different heights and angles.Sue and I went down for the opening day and even though we were not there long, I ended up taking over 100 photos. I am sharing some of the overall shots I took, I also took a lot of photos of individual quilts. And I am still sure that if we had stayed longer we would keep noticing new quilts we somehow had not noticed in our previous viewings. There is so much to look at all angles it is unbelievable. This was definitely worth a special trip into the city.
This event has broke the mold and has set a new paradigm for showing quilts.
3 comments:
Fabulous - I love to live vicariously - thanks for posting the pictures. Let Stashbusters know if you put the individual pix somewhere we can see them.
doni stuck @ Oregon coast
Thanks for sharing! Sorry I could do the girl bounding as planned. My loss. Glad though that you had a nice trip.
Jane
Thank you for taking us along! It's the next best thing to being there! What a wonderful exhibit! Cheers!
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