Marblehead artist in the Toledo art museum
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A Marblehead artist, Laura Petrovich-Cheney, has been chosen to take part in the Toledo Museum of Art s newest exhibit. The Ohio museum’s website states that “Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change brings historical and contemporary works together in critical dialogue to consider how quilts have been used to voice opinions, raise awareness, and enact social reform in the U.S.”
About the exhibition, Forbes Magazine has noted, “With 2020 exposing the ongoing anguish faced by Black and brown people, Indigenous people, women, homosexuals and the sick, an exhibition of quilts has never been more apropos.” It includes nationally known artists Bisa Butler, Judy Chicago, and Faith Ringgold and other noted artists. The quilts on view are not the comforting kind; they embody activism and raise many questions about current societal conditions.
Toledo Museum of art exhibit explores quilts as activism Published by twalro@presspub. on Mon, 12/07/2020 - 7:39am
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“International Honor Quilt (IHQ),” initiated by Judy Chicago in 1980, and created in response to The Dinner Party is among the works featured in the Toledo Museum of Art’s exhibition, “Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change,” on view through Feb. 14, 2021. (Photo courtesy of Toled
American quilts have long been connected with notions of tradition, with patterns and techniques passed down for generations in communities throughout the country.
As nostalgic symbols of the American past, quilts have been viewed as antidotes to upheaval during times of change. Disrupting our expectations of quilts as objects that provide warmth and comfort, “Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change,” on exhibit through Feb. 14, 2021 at the Toledo Museum o