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- Title
THE LANDSCAPE OF THE MODERN QUILT MOVEMENT, 1995-2020.
- Authors
Barrus, Kristin
- Abstract
To extend the scholarship of twenty-first-century quiltmaking culture and practice, this paper contextualizes a significant phenomenon of contemporary quiltmaking, the Modern Quilt Movement (MQM). The discussion examines those who identify as Modern quiltmakers, their associated aesthetic, their approach to quiltmaking, and their online community. These four aspects-the person, the aesthetic, their approach, and their community-constitute the ethos of the MQM. What is this ethos, and how does it contribute to the quilt world and society today? To respond to these questions, the MQM's positioning, tensions, and impact can best be viewed through the lenses of quilt history and cultural anthropology. This paper draws on a study that employed ethnography, expert interviews, an anonymous international survey, academic and trade research, and personal experience in the hobbyist guilt world. Analyzing this variety of data reveals a multisited, dispersed population of people who use various platforms and advances in technology in fabric, tools, social media, and the Internet to build and support their community and approach to quiltmaking. This phenomenon is organically developing today's expressive iteration of experimentation within the narrative of quiltmaking's history.
- Subjects
QUILTING; QUILTMAKERS; QUILTS; ETHNOLOGY; HOBBYISTS; SOCIAL media; VIRTUAL communities
- Publication
Uncoverings, 2022, Vol 43, p7
- ISSN
0277-0628
- Publication type
Article