Reprint from Collections & Connections
Spring 2000, Vol.4, No.2
 

Contemporary Quilts Coming to Museum

Modern trends in quiltmaking offer fiber artists and quiltmakers a wide range of possibilities for self-expression. Should their next textile employ machine versus handwork or a combination of both? Does the quiltmaker want to use a traditional as opposed to nontraditional pattern, technique or embellishment? Is manufactured, hand-dyed or hand-woven material best for a given project? On August 27, the museum staff will celebrate these challenges and opportunities with an exhibit entitles Contemporary Coverage: Not Your Grandmother's Quilt Anymore! The show will consist of approximately thirty quilts and wall hangings that celebrate the diversity of contemporary quiltmaking and offer clues as to what may become the traditional quilt in the 21st century. Contemporary Coverage is a departure from many Kentucky Museum quilt exhibits because it is an invitational show that showcases recent rather than historical textiles. Quilts or wall hanging s selected for the show were completed within the last four years and they embody current trends. Part of the challenge for the exhibit curator was to identify quiltmakers and fiber artists whose work fit the theme of the exhibit. As with similar projects, the curator called upon the Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society for assistance, with five of its members serving as an informal advisory panel, ensuring that the exhibit features some of the finest examples of contemporary Kentucky quiltmaking.

~Sandy Staebell

 

National Library Week 2000

Western Kentucky University Libraries and Museum will team up again with Bowling Green Public Library to celebrate National Library Week 2000. Mayor Eldon Renaud and Judge Executive Mike Buchanon have signed a Proclamation declaring that April 10 -14 is National Library Week in Bowling Green and Warren County. This year's theme is Read! Learn! Connect! At the Library.

Among the scheduled events are:

• A week-long book fair presented by Scholastic Book Company in the lobby of the Educational Resources Center in Tate Page Hall
• An evening of Coffee House Poetry, where students, staff, faculty, and the community are invited to enjoy a cup of coffee and to read their poems
• An Internet workshop on Advanced Searching Techniques presented by Web Site & Virtual Library Coordinator, Haiwang Yuan, at Helm Library's InfoLab
• Western Authors Reception will showcase works produced by the WKU community, the Faculty Library Award will be presented during the reception
• Open House at the Glasgow campus Library
• An Internet workshop on Genealogy where Dr. Rich Weigel of WKU's History Department will show you how to solve family mysteries (located at the South Campus)
• Plus a few other surprises...

Watch for upcoming announcements and come join us for a week of Reading, Learning and Connecting at Your Libraries!

~Rosemary Meszaros