Quilt Index website expands
The Quilt Index, quiltindex.org, the world’s foremost online resource for images and metadata about historic and contemporary quilts, has just launched its website upgrade. Thanks to funding from the...
View ArticleMSU Museum Symposium on Quilt History Collections and Research, Oct. 8-10
Michigan State University Museum announces a major event this fall: “Unpacking Collections: The Legacy of Cuesta Benberry and a Symposium on Using Quilt History Collections,” to explore the connections...
View ArticleIMLS AWARDS NATIONAL LEADERSHIP PLANNING GRANTS TO 13 INSTITUTIONS, TOTALING...
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the primary source of federal support for the nation’s museums and libraries, announces that 13 institutions are receiving National Leadership...
View ArticleQuilt Index Gets Grant to Plan a Global Future
ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA and EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN -September 27, 2010. The Quilt Index, an online archive of more than 50,000 documented quilts, plans to begin adding quilts from outside the United...
View ArticleQuilt Index Surveying International Collections
The Quilt Index launched a survey today to gather descriptions of quilt collections across the globe. The survey is part of a collaborative planning process to expand the Index, funded by the U.S....
View ArticleThe Quilt Index Goes International With the Addition of Quilt Records From...
This quilt, called "Grandmother's Flower Garden" is one of the quilts that is now accessible from the Quilt Index. MATRIX is pleased to announce that The Quilt Index, one of our primary...
View ArticleMSU Museum Credits MATRIX in New Quilt Exhibit
The MSU Museum (MSUM) is currently featuring an exhibit entitled “Patterns of Inquiry: Quilts in Research and Education.” The exhibit talks at length about how quilts— in addition to their traditional...
View ArticleMSU Museum Receives Donation of Kyra Hick’s Contemporary African American...
The quilt history collections at Michigan State University Museum have recently become an even more important repository for research and education. Kyra E. Hicks of Arlington, Virginia has gifted the...
View ArticleThe Quilt Index and AIDS Memorial Quilt Receive NEH Grant
The Quilt Index and the AIDS Memorial Quilt Digital Archive have been awarded over $320,000 from the Digital Humanities Implementation Grants program at the National Endowment for the Humanities. The...
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