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The quilt “has a fresh new
look,” she said. “Anyone dating it
will say this is a fresh, contempo
rary piece.”
Bollini’s “Borgoyne Surrenders”
is part of an exhibition featuring
nearly 35 contemporary and vin
tage quilts at two local galleries.
“Stars and Stripes Forever” opened
this past week at both the Spring
field Museum and the Shelton-Mc
Murphey-Johnson House and will
run until Aug. 10. The exhibition
showcases vintage and contempo
rary handmade quilts displaying
patriotic themes.
“The colors just sing,” Jensen
said. “It’s a particularly startling
color combination.”
The exhibition includes quilts
from as late as the 1850s to the pres
ent day. No matter in which time
frame the quilts were made, many
contain geometric forms, such as
triangles, squares and diamonds,
attached atop a solid background.
The geometric forms are often
made of different fabrics and col
ors. If the same colors are used,
quilters would often sew in differ
ent patterns within the colors.
What may look like a simple pat
tern from afar becomes more com
plex at each viewing.
These vagaries and nuances are
exactly what the quilters were striv
ing for, said Shelly Zegart, presi
dent of the board of directors for the
Alliance for American Quilts.
“Women were making art,” she
said. “They just weren’t sitting
around making quilts because they
were freezing to death.”
While some may argue that a
quilt’s benefit is in keeping people
warm, Zegart said that quilts’ most
important uses are as objects of ex
pression and memory. Many quilts
were created to commemorate a
specific event, a place or person.
“You name it, and they make
quilts for it,” Zegart said.
As styles come and go, she said,
patriotism is the most enduring
theme of American quilt making.
“I can’t think of any larger
theme,” Zegart said. “I think every
body responds to it. With patriot
ism, everyone basically feels the
same way.”
Patriotic themes could take the
form of placing the faces of the
president and vice president on a
quilt, or the faces of a presidential
candidate, or it could be a motif
surrounding a American icon such
as Monticello.
Many of the quilts in the show
use red, white and blue to express
a patriotic feeling of the country.
Zegart said patriotic themes in
quilts often popped up during great
events in United States history,
such as the first centennial, in 1876,
or during a major war.
During wartime, quilters made
quilts for many different reasons.
While many were sent off to sol
diers in the field, quilters also sold
or raffled quilts to raise money for
organizations like the Red Cross.
During these raffles, each person
could pay for the quilt, a star on the
quilt, or they could pay to have
their name sewed on the quilt. A
Red Cross quilt is being displayed
at the Springfield Museum.
Along with different themes and
styles, the art of quilt making has
also enjoyed fluctuations in popu
larity. One local quilting appraiser
and historian said that the United
States is presently experiencing a
quilting renaissance.
“We are in an explosion now,”
Ann Rogers Pfrender said. “There
is lots of stuff going on.”
There are at least four quilting
groups in the Eugene area. Students
can learn quilting at the EMU Craft
Center, and elementary students are
learning how to quilt at the Brattain
Elementary School in Springfield.
Zegart said that quilting is now a $2
billion per year industry.
As the quilters become more
networked and work together in
groups, many of them are pushing
the traditional boundaries of
quilts and creating new styles.
There are also a lot of reproduc
tions of older fabrics, especially
from the Depression era. Howev
er, there is still an traditional
group of quilters expressing them
selves with more traditional styles
and quilting methods.
“There is room for everybody in
quilting — whatever you’re inter
ested in,” Pfrender said.
John Liebehardt is a freelance
reporter for the emerald.
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