Going West! Quilts and Community
Going West! Quilts and Community reveals the essential role that quilts and the making of quilts played in the lives of women on the frontier. The exhibition features 50 quilts from the first quarter of the nineteenth century to the 1930s — on loan from historical societies and museums in Nebraska — that were brought on the journey as cherished memories or made once women established homes on the prairie.
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Going West! includes a wide variety of quilts, from the familiar log cabin and lone star patterns to variations of the fan and wagon wheel to crazy quilts, doll and children’s quilts and community signature works. Each quilt reveals the extraordinary creativity of the individuals who made them and help to tell the stories of Americans who forged west and of the country's pioneering spirit.
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The Museum gratefully acknowledges the support of Helen and Peter Bing for this exhibition.