We had a quilt exhibit, called "Cover Them" and it was one of the most
visited exhibits we have had.  The quilts were beautiful, the theme involved
children and tied in to the fact that a number of children were killed in
the Holocaust.  Numerous quilts were donated for the exhibit (all baby
and/or children's quilts) and visitors were asked to take a quilt and give
to a child who needed it. Some of the stories were heartbreaking - I
remember one man coming in and saying he was taking the quilt to give to his
granddaughter who had just been born with a serious birth defect.

Lisa Moellering
Librarian/Archivist/Registrar
Holocaust Museum Houston
5401 Caroline Street
Houston, Texas 77004
713.942.8000 ext. 110
713.942.7953 (fax)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf
Of thomas w kavanagh
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 11:13 PM
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Subject: Re: Wall Street Journal article -- "Museums Cozy Up To Quilts"

FWIW:

For the past 3 years, the Mathers Museum of World Cultures at Indiana
University has served as venue for quilt exhibits produced in conjunction
with a national quilt conference held here in Bloomington.

These conferences were held during our normally off-peak vistitations
[i.e. university summer break], but during those periods our visitation
was above the previous normal for those times.

Conclusion:  Quilting people like quilts. Quilting people visit museums
with quilts.

Who is it that really cares if it's not "art"? Non-quilters.

You got quilts: put 'em up.


Thomas Kavanagh
Curator of Collections
Mathers Museum
Indiana University

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