Feature Exhibits
This January the Southeastern Quilt and Textile Museum will open three new exhibits that will run through April 2025. Each of these unique exhibits will highlight a different type of textile art providing for a multifaceted museum experience.
The Art Cloth Network’s traveling exhibit “Unfolding” will be displayed in the Dr. Charles and Marilyn Hubbard Gallery. This exhibit encouraged artists to think about “what is revealed when a story is told….” Artists interpreted the theme in a wide variety of ways, drawing inspiration from life, nature, world issues, and more. These three dimensional textile works will use a variety of interpretations to reveal a story, similar to unwrapping a gift. It features 26 works by 23 artists allowing for various interpretations to inspire guests. Unfolding is open to the public from January 7 - April 12, 2025.
For lovers of traditional quilts, the museum will feature “Stars of All Points”. This exhibit will explore star pattern quilts of various forms, highlighting some incredible pieces from the Museum's permanent collection. Stars of All Points will be open to the public from January 7 - April 12, 2025.
The third exhibit brings a taste of Filipino heritage to West Georgia with Chiara Cox's exhibit “Contemporary Filipino Textiles.” This exhibit serves to link Filipinos in the USA and Filipinos in the Philippines by showcasing their shared culture and heritage through a visual display of a variety of fabrics and a discussion of weaving traditions still found in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao today. By exhibiting different Philippine weaves, this collection aims to preserve Filipino cultural heritage, keep the legacy of traditional Filipino weavers alive, and educate the diaspora of Filipinos about their cultural inheritance. This exhibit will be on display from January 8 - April 5 of 2025 and is sponsored in part by the Philippine Textile Council: Habi and Arthaland.
Upcoming Exhibits
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Korhogo cloth is an West African textile made by hand painting designs on hand woven and hand spun cotton fabric. The paintings are done using a specially fermented mud-based and natural vegetal pigment that darkens over time. They are decorated with symbols of humans, natural elements like the sun, moon and stars and animals. The Senufo use the cloth as a shield against vengeful spirits. Women spin the cotton into yarn and prepare the dye while men weave and decorate the cloth.
Beth Ann St. George is a Folk Artist, who uses Korhogo cloth as central pieces of her modern textile art. While she is fascinated with the stories of Korhogo, she does not alter the Korhogo beyond the quilted stitching and an occasional button or bead. The ragged edges are left visible. She uses these pieces to educate people about the meanings of the symbols of the Korhogo cloth.
April 15 - July 12, 2025
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As a quilter and photographer, Myrtie Cope has found ways to incorporate photography into quilting and embroidery.
The embroidery adds texture and interest to landscapes and nature photos and, on some photos, creates an abstract image. The stitches create focus on different areas of the photos; colors are added which are not in the original photo but can be imagined.
April 15 - July 12, 2025
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Great Depression Quilts from the permanent collection of the Southeastern Quilt and Textile Museum will be on display in Gallery III. Each of the quilts on display will provide a different look into the times and lives of people who lived and quilted during the Great Depression.
Upcoming Events and Classes
The mission of the Southeastern Quilt and Textile Museum is to promote and preserve the history of quilting and textiles in the southeastern U.S. through visual exhibitions and engaging educational opportunities that will inspire and carry on the cherished traditions of our textile heritage.