'Posing with Patchwork' offers context to quilts in photos

14 Feb 2013    

Historic photographs do more than capture a moment in time. They tell a story. "Posing with Patchwork: Quilts in Photographs, 1855-1955," a new exhibition at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will explore the larger, human story conveyed in historic photographs of quilts.

"Vintage photographs remind us that quilts have always been a part of our daily life," said Marin Hanson, the museum's curator of exhibitions. "People felt they were special enough to include them in photographically documenting themselves, their families and their lives. Quilts were an important aspect of people's lives for as long as photographs have been around."

Janet Finley, author of "Quilts in Everyday Life, 1855-1955: A 100-Year Photographic History," will guest curate the exhibition.

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