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Pritchard pages FM-3 4/27/07 10:23 AM Page i Uncommon Threads Pritchard pages FM-3 4/27/07 10:23 AM Page ii The Ohio Quilt Series Ricky Clark,Ellice Ronsheim,and Donna Sue Groves,series editors Quilts ofthe Ohio Western Reserve,by Ricky Clark Uncommon Threads:Ohio’s Art Quilt Revolution,by Gayle A.Pritchard Pritchard pages FM-3 4/27/07 10:23 AM Page iii Uncommon Threads Ohio’s Art Quilt Revolution GAYLE A. PRITCHARD Ohio University Press ATHENS Pritchard pages FM-3 4/27/07 10:23 AM Page iv Ohio University Press,Athens,Ohio www.ohio.edu/oupress © by Ohio University Press Printed in China All rights reserved Ohio University Press books are printed on acid-free paper ƒ™ Cover art:Reach for the Stars,.Cynthia Lockhart." x ". Cottons,blends,rayon,taffeta,lamé,leather,suede,metallic cording,braid and fabrics.Machine-pieced,appliquéd,embel- lished,hand-stitched French bias.Photo by Jay Yocis. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pritchard,Gayle A.,– Uncommon threads :Ohio’s art quilt revolution / Gayle A. Pritchard. p.cm.— (The Ohio quilt series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-:----(pbk.:alk.paper) ISBN-:---(pbk.:alk.paper) . Art quilts—Ohio—History—th century.. Art quilts— Ohio—History—st century. I.Title. NK.P .—dc Pritchard pages FM-3 4/27/07 10:23 AM Page v Publication of Uncommon Threads:Ohio’s Art Quilt Revolution has been made possible in part by the generous financial support of the North East Ohio Regional Quilt Council. Pritchard pages FM-3 4/27/07 10:23 AM Page vi The Vowel Book:Table ofContents,.Clare Murray. " x ".Silk screen,stamping,painting,machine stitching on canvas.Photo by John Seyfried. Pritchard pages FM-3 4/27/07 10:23 AM Page vii Contents Preface and Acknowledgments ix The Groundwork for a Quilt Revolution Ohio’s Art Quilt Pioneers:The Beginning of a Movement The Big Bang and the New Universe The Second Wave:Art Quilt Pioneers of the s The Millennium:A New Century of Art Quilts Conclusion List of Quilts Illustrated Notes Bibliography Index vii Pritchard pages FM-3 4/27/07 10:23 AM Page viii Color Blocks #,.Nancy Crow.." x .".Cotton,hand-dyed by the artist,resist-dyed squares by Lunn Fabrics.Cut and machine-pieced by the artist.Hand-quilted by Marie Moore with pattern marked by the artist. As Crow’s improvisational approach developed,she says,“I kept practicing until I taught myself to cut shapes directly out of the fabric without templates,without even knowing ahead of time what the overall composition might be.”She has kept this work in her personal collection.A detail was used on the cover of The Complete Collected Poems ofMaya Angelou.Photo by J.Kevin Fitzsimons. Pritchard pages FM-3 4/27/07 10:23 AM Page ix Preface and Acknowledgments The initial impetus for writing the untold story of questions and follow-up e-mails and for the gener- the emergence and evolution of the art quilt move- ous giving of their time,searching for and sharing ment in Ohio came as the result of a stimulating personal materials.Most of all,I celebrate the focus discussion during a symposium held in Oberlin, and persistence all of them have brought to their Ohio,in .Entitled “Pathways and Perspectives,” own work.They have created a legacy for all of us. the symposium was a natural culmination of the I am honored to tell their stories. Artist as Quiltmaker exhibition I had curated at the I would also like to acknowledge the following Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (FAVA) with special thanks for their support and assistance: that same year.In celebration of twenty years of ex- Judi Warren Blaydon,TafiBrown,Lois Carroll, hibiting art quilts,all previous Artist as Quiltmaker Nancy Crow,Hilary Fletcher,Linda Fowler, exhibition jurors,along with exhibition founder Ricky Clark,were invited to attend the symposium to discuss with an audience the history of the ex- hibit and the evolution and future of the art quilt.¹ Inspired,I decided to dig deeper into the remark- able story of how their contributions eventually came to create the art quilt movement in Ohio.In expanding my research for Uncommon Threads:Ohio’s Art Quilt Revolution,two questions kept floating through my mind:“Why Ohio?”and “What was going on in Ohio during the ’s that led to the emergence of the art quilt movement?”I was search- ing for the obvious:big events and larger-than-life people.What I found instead were the marks of individuals pursuing their work,finding their way, “Pathways and Perspectives”Symposium,June ,, and,eventually,finding each other.It was through Firelands Association for the Visual Arts,Oberlin.Artist as Quiltmaker founder Ricky Clark and former exhibition this confluence of independent individuals that the jurors gather to discuss the evolution of the art quilt over larger synergistic movement was born. the past twenty years.Left to right:Penny McMorris,Nancy I am deeply grateful to all the participants in this Crow,Ricky Clark,Clare Murray,Susan Shie.Photo cour- story for their endless patience with my interview tesy FAVA archives. ix Pritchard pages FM-3 4/27/07 10:23 AM Page x Howard Fraker,Susan Harvith,Susan Hoyt,Susan Manderen;Citifolk in Dayton,Ohio;Amy Bartter Jones,Terrie Hancock Mangat,Ruth McDowell, and Cris Rom at the Cleveland Institute of Art; Penny McMorris,Barbara Musser,Elaine Plogman, the staffat Ohio University Press and senior Chris Pritchard,Haley Pritchard,Michael Randles, editor Gillian Berchowitz;The Ohio Quilt Series John Seyfried,Robert Shaw,Susan Shie,and editors Ricky Clark,Donna Sue Groves,and Ellice Charles and Ford von Weise.Special thanks to the Ronsheim;Ron Gargasz at WBGU-TV in Bowling North East Ohio Regional Quilt Council for its Green,Ohio;and Lark Publications in Asheville, generous financial support of this book;the Fire- North Carolina,for the use of its research library. lands Association for the Visual Arts in Oberlin, Thank you,thank you,thank you. Ohio,especially to Kyle Michalak and Betsy x
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