This exhibition invites you to Find Your Quilt. A quilt can be artistic and designed, scientific and mathematical, political and personal. Quilts offer windows into the past, or hopes for the future. Find Your Quilt celebrates this diversity by displaying a bold and vibrant selection of historic quilts from around the world, drawn from the rich holdings of the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, alongside innovative contemporary quilts, some made for this exhibition. Intended for the quilt-enthusiast, the quilt-curious, and the quilt-skeptic alike, Find Your Quilt explores how we define—and continually redefine—what quilts are, have been, and could be.
Find Your Quilt is curated by Dr. Sophie Pitman, Pleasant Rowland Textile Specialist and Research Director for the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection. This exhibition and its related programs are made possible with support from the Anonymous Fund and many generous donors and partners who share the vision of the Nancy M. Bruce Center for Design and Material Culture. The center creates meaningful opportunities for students, faculty, and the broader community to engage with textiles, design, and material culture.
Bring your class/group to Find Your Quilt
Related Programs:
September 4 – 6, 2025: The Great WI Quilt Show
October 16, 5pm – 7pm: Fall Exhibition Celebration
October 18, 8am – 6pm: Quilt Exhibitions Bus Tour
October 24, 1pm-3pm: Community Quilting Workshop: Picking Up the Thread
October 22, 12pm – 1pm: Public Gallery Tour
November 15, 10am – 5pm: Quilt Documentation Day
November 15, 2pm – 3pm: Public Gallery Tour
November 19, 5pm – 7pm: Community Quilting Workshop: Advancing the Process
November 21, 5:30pm – 7:30pm: Quilts are Jazz
January 22, 12pm – 1pm: Public Gallery Tour
January 28, 11:30am – 1:30pm: Drop In Community Quilting Workshop: Finding Your Flow
February 13, 5:30pm – 7:30pm: Quilts are Jazz
February 27, 3:30pm – 4:30pm: Public Gallery Tour
February 28, 1pm – 3pm: Community Quilting Workshop: Finishing Touches
March 1, 1:30pm – 3:30pm: Meet the Makers
