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Exhibit

New England Quilt Museum - Light and Movement

New England Quilt Museum - Light and Movement

08-17-2025 8:00 pm - 09-06-2025 11:00 pm
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Light and Movement

 

Works by Marianne R. Williamson

 

“Life is always changing in one way or another, and the world around me is always moving, swaying in the breeze, or changed by light.” -- Marianne R. Williamson

Light and movement have been recurring themes in Williamson’s work for nearly 45 years since she embraced textiles as her artistic medium. A classical education in art from L’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Geneva, Switzerland provided a solid foundation for the painterly qualities of her distinctive scenes of sunlit gardens, windswept landscapes, ripples on water and ocean waves.

 

New England Quilt Museum - Pat Pauly, Unfolding Years

New England Quilt Museum - Pat Pauly, Unfolding Years

08-18-2025 8:00 pm - 09-20-2025 11:00 pm
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Pat Pauly

Unfolding Years

The NEQM is pleased to feature works by Pat Pauly, whose fiber art exudes a graphic, color-saturated palette using her own hand printed fabric. Featured in major exhibitions and found internationally in public and private collections, Pauly’s work is distinctive for its strong abstraction of natural forms and complex color combinations. With a degree in art and graduate studies in design and fine art, Pauly embraced fiber art as her medium in the early 1980s “as the perfect amalgam of construction, painting and printmaking.” 

New England Quilt Museum - It’s Not Easy Getting Green

New England Quilt Museum - It’s Not Easy Getting Green

08-19-2025 8:00 pm - 09-20-2025 11:00 pm
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It’s Not Easy Getting Green

Selections from the Permanent Collection

The quilts exhibited in the Nancy Donahue Gallery range in age from the early 1800s to the 1970s.

This selection demonstrates the remarkable evolution of textile dying techniques used to create the color green--Quercitron was extracted from the bark of the North American Black Oak tree; two-step or overdyed processing involved the use of multiple colors like yellow and blue; and synthetic dyes introduced in the last quarter of the nineteenth century have taken many decades to perfect. For a color so closely associated with the natural world, green has been a notoriously challenging, and often poisonous, color to manufacture.

New England Quilt Museum - Summer Celebration

New England Quilt Museum - Summer Celebration

08-19-2025 8:00 pm - 09-06-2025 11:00 pm

Summer Celebration

of New England Quilts

A Free Community Festival

During this community event, admission to the NEQM is voluntary.

Summer Celebration of New England Quilts showcases works from the many dynamic quilt guilds located in the New England region. Every two years, the Supporting Guilds of the NEQM are tasked with selecting an exceptional quilt made by one or more of their members to display in the galleries. In hosting this exhibition, the NEQM celebrates many skillful, but lesser-known, quiltmakers and recognizes the important role of quilt guilds in advancing the art. 

Art Evolved: Intertwined

Art Evolved: Intertwined

08-21-2025 8:00 pm - 08-31-2025 11:00 pm
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Art Evolved: Intertwined

 

There is a continuum where beauty and function blend and diverge in the hands of the contemporary artist. Even when traditional materials such as thread, fabric, wood, reed, and paper are used, these artists combine skill, imagination, and vision to meld their materials into compelling and beautiful art, which resonates in today’s world.

Art Evolved: Intertwined is a collaboration between Studio Art Quilt Associates and the National Basketry Organization. After a rigorous jurying process, 59 artists from both organizations were invited to participate in this conversation, which highlights the enduring connections between quilting and basketry, as well as the relationship between beauty and functionality. The exhibition will travel to the Yellowstone Art Museum (MT), Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Arts Museum (WA), Lauren Rogers Museum of Art (MS), and Fuller Craft Museum.