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Brown Bag Lunch & Learn, Chisholm Trail Museum
January 21, 2016, 12:05 p.m.–12:45 p.m.
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Bring your lunch and join us for Episode 9: Quilt Scholarship: Romance and Reality
- Why Quilt Scholarship?
- How Romanticism Hobbles Quilt Scholarship
- African American Quilts: A Misconception
- Quilt Scholarship since the 1970s
- Quilt Scholarship: Why Does It Matter?
The history of quilt scholarship in America is more relevant, and far more interesting, than some might think. To begin with, there was once a time when it wasn’t very scholarly at all. However, the quilt was so beloved, so central to the myth of American life, that many scholars failed to debunk the legends and folklore it had engendered. Today the field has grown into a serious discipline generating material of interest, not just to the quilt world but to a dozen other important disciplines from material culture to sociology. The quilt is central to them all.
