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By Lois Marilyn Verma

Museums Collaborate for Quilt Lovers

Dallas, Texas, will offer quilt lovers an unusual variety of quilt exhibitions and quilt-related events as nine area museums team up for Quilt Mania. Beginning in September and continuing through the spring, each museum will feature user-friendly visual aides and educational programming in addition to presentations of a wide variety of quilts.

The first show, entitled Common Threads: African American Quilts Past and Present, will open at the African American Museum of Art on September 11 and will continue through April 28, 2004. For information, phone 214-565-9026; website www.aamdallas.org.

Pinwheel, 80" x 80", maker unknown, is one of the Amish quilts on display in an exhibition opening in September at Thanks-Giving Square in Dallas, Texas.

September will also see the opening of Western Tradition, Eastern Innovation: Contemporary Japanese Quilts at the Crow Collection of Asian Art from September 24 to March 31, 2004 (214-979-6430; website www.crowcollection.org).

The Science of Quilting will be at The Science Place from September 26 to March 31, 2004 (214-428-5555 ext. 336; website www.scienceplace.org). Stitched by Grateful Fingers: Amish Quilts at Thanks-Giving Square opens the next day, September 27, and also continues until March 31, 2004 (214-969-1977; website www.thanksgiving.org).

Watch future issues of QNM for news regarding other exhibits in this collection. More detailed information about each of the exhibits can be found on the website www.quiltmania.org or phone 214-979-6476.

Friendship Quilt, 98" x 98", maker unknown, c. 1840. The Science Place will display quilts such as this one in which technological advances such as indelible ink, water soluble thread, and machine-produced fabric and batting were used.