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Right, Rocky Road to Kansas, 23" x 23", maker unknown, from Woody and Nancy Ray's collection.
Photo by Elizabeth Noguchi.
Below, Miller's East Barn, 49" x 40", by Eliza Greenhoe-Bergh of Dummerston, Vermont, won the Governor's Award at the 2004 VQF. A retrospective of Eliza's work will be on display at this year's festival.
Photo courtesy Vermont Quilt Festival.
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From June 24-26, the campus of Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont, will once again become a haven for quilt lovers as New England's oldest and largest quilt festival celebrates its twenty-ninth anniversary.
The Vermont Quilt Festival, founded in 1977 by Richard Cleveland, will feature a total of more than 400 quilts this year, including a judged show of nearly 200 quilts and displays of antique quilts from museums and private collections.
One of the special exhibits includes quilts, collected by Judy Roche, with unusual elements in the design, quirks, or oddities that might be considered to be "a mistake" by strict design standards. For Judy, these quilts demanded a second look as they seemed to demonstrate something about their makers' joy in creating them.
For the first time, a portion of Woody and Nancy Ray's collection of economy quilts will also be featured. These are quilts that were frequently made as utility quilts from "strings," fabric scraps too thin or too small to be used in pieced patterns. Now increasingly rare as many of these quilts were used and worn out, the Rays gathered these pieces over a period of 20 years.
Two quiltmakers will have individual exhibits of their works. Eliza Greenhoe-Bergh will share a retrospective of her work. Although she started making traditional quilts in the early 1970s, most of her recent pieces are intricately pieced landscapes created from cotton and silk fabrics. Fiber artist Marilyn Gillis will display her quilts made with her own dyed, painted, and printed fabrics, and the felt and silk paper she creates.
For more information about the exhibits, classes, and lectures, fax VQF at 802-485-7092; info@vqf.org; www.vqf.org.
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