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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