Upcoming Shows

CURRENT and UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS and Conferences

Girlhood (It's Complicated).

National Museum of American History (NMAH) in Washington, DC.

The exhibition is one in many ways in which the various Smithsonian museums have chosen to honor the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote.

The exhibition will be at the NMAH for two years, after which it will be a traveling exhibition and be on display at five to seven other museums in the country 2023-2025.

https://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/girlhood-its-complicated?utm_...

Sewful Work

Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts

Needlework exhibit on view July 9, 2020 - December 24, 2020

visit https://rjdmuseum.org/current-exhibitions/

NEW RESOURCES

New Light: Notes on a Vermont Schoolgirl Embroidery

Article in The Magazine Antiques (July 3, 2020) by Dr. Gene R. Garthwaite

visit https://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/new-light-notes-on-vermont-schoolgirl-embroidery/

The Hannah Samplers

"Fiber Talk Live" with Gary Parr, July 8, 2020

interview with Barbara Hutson of Queenstown Sampler Designs

visit https://wetalkfiber.com/tag/barbara-hutson/

A Sampler from the Bennington Museum Blog Post

visit Bennington's website for more information

on this sampler from 1835.

Sewing and Embroidery Lessons at the College of San Ignacio de Loyola, Vizcaínas

Check out a recorded Zoom presentation (in Spanish, password is: 0p%eR140)

about school girl embroidery in Mexico City from the College of San Ignacio De Loyola, Vizcaínas, founded in 1767

Hidden Stories/Human Lives

Check out the online symposium from The Textile Society of America.

A Guide to Early American Samplers

Head over to Simmons College Library page for A Guide to Early American Samplers.

"A Stitch in Time" - Blog Post
by Stacey Fraser
Lexington Historical Society, Massachusetts
visit lexingtonhistory.org

"Threads of History: Swetland family samplers" - Blog Post
by Aimee Newell

Luzerne County Historical Society, Pennsylvania
visit luzernehistory.org

"The Tethering Stitch, The Liberating Stitch" - YouTube Video

by Mariah Gruner
Decorative Arts Trust 2019 Emerging Scholars Colloquium
visit youtube.com