quilts Archives - The Warrenist https://warrenist.com/calendar/tag/quilts/ Thu, 30 Jan 2025 04:01:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://warrenist.com/calendar/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Warren-County-North-Carolina-Community-Events-Calendar-Warrenton-NC-Norlina-Macon-Littleton-Lake-Gaston-Soul-City-lifestyle-blog-100x100.png quilts Archives - The Warrenist https://warrenist.com/calendar/tag/quilts/ 32 32 HERITAGE QUILTERS: The Soul of Quilts- Comfort, Memories, and Stories https://warrenist.com/calendar/events/heritage-quilters-the-soul-of-quilts-comfort-memories-and-stories/ Thu, 30 Jan 2025 04:01:08 +0000 https://warrenist.com/calendar/?post_type=mec-events&p=15158 From February 24th to 28th, Warren County Memorial Library will exhibit a collection of traditional and narrative quilts produced by the Heritage Quilters.

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]]> Quilts have always held a special place in African Americans’ traditional material culture, carrying memories and stories in cloth from old clothes and household fabrics. They served many purposes, including covering beds, shielding windows and walls to keep cold air at bay, and protecting precious possessions as people moved from place to place.

Today, the Heritage Quilters strive to preserve and document Warren County’s quilts and quilting traditions. From February 24th to 28th, Warren County Memorial Library will exhibit a collection of traditional and narrative quilts produced by the Heritage Quilters.

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]]> Artist Reception: Heritage Quilters “Evolution of a Tradition Quilt Exhibition” https://warrenist.com/calendar/events/heritage-quilters-evolution-of-a-tradition-quilt-exhibition-lakeland-cultural-arts-center-littleton-nc/ Mon, 16 Oct 2023 02:27:44 +0000 https://warrenist.com/calendar/?post_type=mec-events&p=6438 An Evolution of a Tradition Heritage Quilters quilt show Lakeland Cultural Arts Center Littleton Lake Gaston NC “Evolution of Tradition,” centers social justice themes, perspectives on historical events, and cultural representations.

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It includes representations of women in church hats, work hats, and traditional quilt covers. The exhibition highlights quilting as a material culture with no right or wrong approach or competing aesthetics. The quiltmakers in this exhibition hope viewers leave inspired and curious about quilts as conduits for creative expressions connected to the complex times in which we live.

About the Heritage Quilters. The Heritage Quilters operate to support, encourage, and document quilting traditions and activities. The group includes women and men, mostly older adults (one young person) from Warren and Vance Counties. All the group members have strong connections with their community.

Although each member brings their unique touch, the group prides itself on the level of hand quilting expertise it possesses. While some members utilize machines,
handwork is always present. Those same stitches have shaped several projects that bring together a spectrum of skills and amplify their love of community and
engagement. The Heritage Quilters have enjoyed math and quilting lessons with Warren County fourth graders for over ten years. President Belinda Mack Alston
proudly recalls how moved she was by the group’s civic engagement, stating, “I learned a lot more about being involved because they would sit and discuss things that
were actually going on in the community. It made me more aware of my surroundings and how people from all walks of life can be active.”

The Heritage Quilters occupy and maintain the Historic Aaron Hendrick House in downtown Warrenton, North Carolina.

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]]> Heritage Quilters Quilt Show https://warrenist.com/calendar/events/heritage-quilters-quilt-show-may-2022/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 01:11:56 +0000 https://warrenist.com/calendar/?post_type=mec-events&p=1738 Heritage Quilters Turning 20 THEME: “Stitching Life Stories: Turning 20 and More” A discussion and presentation of quilts by the Heritage Quilters.

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]]> THEME: “Stitching Life Stories: Turning 20 and More”

A discussion and presentation of quilts by the Heritage Quilters.

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