That The Nation has what appears to be an in-house quilter continues to tickle me. Really love Sylvia Hernandez' most recent quilt honoring John Lewis - the VOTE snowflake is very cool
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/john-lewis-american-wisdom/
Another story about the Without a Net exhibit of 3-D quilts at the International Quilt Museum - I found this one more engaging about the artist’s motives for what she does and there’s more (and better) pics
At first I thought these were Bisa Butler quilts, but they aren’t — they’re Eugene Poole Jr. quilts and they are amazing!
I know the history of Black jockeys comes up around Derby time every year, but what this man is creating to celebrate their legacy is incredible
https://www.lpm.org/news/2025-04-17/quilts-show-black-kentucky-derby-jockeys-in-full-color-and-scale
Quilt activism 
in the news -
"Who would you be if you had the freedom to live into the fullness of who you are?
That’s the question a new art installation put to transgender and nonbinary Americans across the country, asking them to weave all their joys, frustrations and hopes into more than 250 panels that will form a massive quilt"
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/us/gallery/trans-visibility-freedom-to-be-quilt/index.html
There've been a lot of articles about the Gee's Bend Airing of the Quilts exhibit lately, but I like how this one focuses on letting a single quilter, Mary Lee Bendolph, speak
Greenville NC exhibit of quilts honoring the children killed at Uvalde - not many photos of the quilts, but a nice piece explaining the artist Jo-Ann Morgan’s work
New exhibit featuring Black American quilters at the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, “We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists”
Some of these artists were featured in #CelebrateBlackQuilters this year but it looks like I have a bunch of new names to research for #BlackHistoryMonth 2026!
Exhibit:
https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/black-women-quilters
Related article:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/from-the-antebellum-south-to-the-civil-rights-movement-black-american-women-have-long-told-their-stories-through-quilts-180986106/
QuiltCon 2025 winners!
Usually, I’m a little iffy on the Best in Show, there’s always one or more others that I would have chosen
But this time, I opened this website and was “Yep, I don’t even have to see anything else. That’s obviously the Best in Show”
Remember how AQS refused to show a quilt related to abortion access and SAQA pulled all their quilts from AQS exhibits in protest?
Marrianne Fons reports that the International Quilt Museum acquired that quilt for their permanent collection!
My original toot:
https://mastodon.art/@inarticulatequilter/113989199840425258
Fons' blog post:
https://mariannefons.substack.com/p/a-quiltropolitan-hits-the-con
“Your Mother. Your Daughter. Your Sister. Your Grandmother. You”
Cotton, vintage and thrifted fabrics
82 x 82 inches
Laura Shaw
There’s more than one way to protest with quilts —
https://diva-magazine.com/2025/02/12/how-queer-quilts-can-acts-as-archives-of-trans-joy/
Hat tip to @Researchbuzz for the original post
The American Quilt Society refuses to include 2 quilts from SAQA in a show so SAQA pulls ALL their quilts from AQS exhibits
The first quilt could be considered a vagina, the second was abortion-related
Fuck AQS
Studio Art Quilt Association
Well, now they've done it - they've pissed off the quilters!
Quilt-In Held in Provo UT
The Atlanta Quilt Festival celebrated the life and legacy of Congressman John Lewis this year with an exhibit called 'Good Trouble Quilts' -- so many quilts honoring him! Every quilter in Atlanta must have made one
Kenneth Zakee's is my favorite (the last one), but I'm excited that Elaine Foster's Zipping Up Racism has a similar zipper idea to the quilt I'm currently working on - it's possible!
https://www.atlantaquiltfestival.com/portfolio/%22good-trouble-quilts%22
Going to start reposting quilt related media I come across under #QuiltingNews for easier following (or muting, I guess; but who doesn’t need more quilting news in their life?)
This one’s from CBC News -
https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/canada-1akomc2pz/-/a-k9M1sRHdRsCYi0M5OlL88A%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0
Louisville artist "Sunshine Joe" Mallard's "Obama Tie Quilt" is joining the collection at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. He began working on the quilt in June 2008, which took him five years to complete
https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisville/news/2025/01/14/sunshine-joe-obama-quilt-
