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Painting With Fabric: Maine Quilts on the Edge |
| Section: THE ARTS / CRAFT & DESIGN |
| Author: Stephen Henkin |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1997 |
| Size: 2,767 Words, 17,310 Characters |
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If you have any concepts about quilting, you had better check them at the door before entering a Maine art-quilt exhibit. You are in for a big surprise. Intriguingly composed, bold geometric patterns; animal images stitched in delicate hues reminsicent of a fine watercolor painting; colorful, cartoonlike panels making strong social commentary--such is the compelling visual imagery created by today's Maine art quilter.
Not only is new artistic ground being broken, but there is a strong sense that this vital art form flows out of a solid tradition. Indeed it does, with the art (or "innovative") quilt taking advantage of the elemental form it has inherited from America's earliest quilts, which arrived with the European settlers.
Fortunately, the stark, repetitive, traditional (or "class...
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...ary 12, 1997. Major upcoming shows in 1997 include: Quilter's Heritage Festival, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, April 3-6; American Quilter's Society Show, Paducah, Kentucky, April 24-27; Quilt National '97, Athens, Ohio, May 24-Sept. 1; Vermont Quilt Fest, Northfield, Vermont, July 17-20; Maine Quilts '97, Waterville, Maine, July 25-27; and the International Quilt Festival, Houston, Nov. 7-9.
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