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Tag: Threads

Community Quilt Update, Next “Threads” Lecture, Jubilee, and more!

Posted on August 14, 2020October 26, 2020

Assembly of the community quilt is underway! We have a small committee of volunteers putting together all the squares we received. We plan to reveal our progress at our John Paul Jones Jubilee event (online!) on September 10th! More details and links for tickets to this event farther down. We’ve been busy preparing the quilt…

“Threads: A Community Quilt for 2020” Opens at Portsmouth Historical Society on Friday, August 7

Posted on August 1, 2020August 31, 2020

“Threads: A Community Quilt for 2020” Opens at Portsmouth Historical Society on Friday, August 7 Quietly, behind the scenes, a team of masked historians has been assembling a landmark exhibition of some uniquely American art. Created by the nonprofit Portsmouth Historical Society, “Threads: A Community Quilt for 2020” opens at the Society’s Academy Gallery adjacent…

“Threads” Lecture Series

Posted on June 12, 2020November 5, 2020

We’ve assembled a stand-out crowd of lecturers for this summer and fall! Textile experts Diane Fagan Affleck, formerly of the American Textile History Museum, Lynne Bassett, author of Northern Comfort: New England’s Early Quilts 1780-1850 and co-author of Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil War, Jennifer Swope, Assistant Curator at the MFA’s David and…

“Threads” Quilt Square Submissions

Posted on June 1, 2020September 9, 2020

“Threads:” Quilts from the collection

Posted on May 6, 2020September 9, 2020

Portsmouth Historical Society Launches “Threads” Community Quilt & Exhibition

Posted on April 23, 2020August 31, 2020

Portsmouth Historical Society Launches “Threads” Community Quilt & Exhibition Contribute your own creative quilt square from home PORTSMOUTH, NH—In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Portsmouth Historical Society proudly announces “Threads: A Community Quilt for 2020.” The highlight of this special exhibition—opening in early July—will be a large quilt to be stitched together from individual squares created…

THREADS: A Community Quilt for 2020

Posted on April 21, 2020September 9, 2020

Quilt Square Instructions: PDF Document Download Make your own square to show what you love about your community and mail it to the Portsmouth Historical Society by June 15th! DEADLINE EXTENDED! Please get your squares in the mail by JULY 13! Download the guidelines PDF for full details! While nothing like the current pandemic has…

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