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Celebrating our area's four-legged, feathered and finned friends
By Patience Renzulli
August 6, 2010
A Horse’s Tale at the Quilt Museum!
OK, let’s just say you are one of the poor deprived souls who have never set foot in the Quilt Museum. Or let’s say you’re one of the enlightened folks who visits this local gold mine all the time.
Wait! What’s the Quilt Museum have to do with the iPet of the Week?
Check. This. OUT!
Judy Schwender is the Curator of Collections at The National Quilt Museum (Museum of the American Quilter’s Society) in Paducah, and they had a brilliant idea to hold a horse show. “Horses are part of the American iconography,” Judy says. “With the World Equestrian Games being held in Lexington this fall — the first time ever outside Europe — The National Quilt Museum has mounted an exhibition of horse-themed quilts.”
The exhibit is titled “A Horse’s Tale” and it opens Friday, Aug. 13, with the closing day Nov. 16. If you’ve been to the Quilt Museum, you know how these modern works of art can leave you forgetting how to breathe. If you haven’t, this is one show you don’t want to miss.
I think that a horse is one of the most beautiful of God’s living things. And to see this show (I got a sneak peek at all of the entries), well, when you combine the artistry of the quilters with the majesty of the horse, it lifts you up. Way up.
Judy smiles knowingly. “Whether you favor Friesians or Pintos, you will find your horse here,” she says.
Have a multitude of show ribbons? Some very clever person turned hers into a quilt, included in the show.
“There are 24 pieces in this exhibit,” Judy boasts. We will also have a guest artist, Shirley P. Kelly, and her quilts will include pandas, horses, puffins, and goldfish, with a dog on one of the quilts.”
I have a favorite, but I shouldn’t influence you. After you go, email me and tell me which quilt you liked best, and why. If you love animals — and if you are reading the iPet of the Week, that’s a no brainer — you will love, love, love this show, no doubt about it.
It’s right here, it opens Friday, it’s our own part of the World Equestrian Games. You don’t have to drive to Lexington. You don’t have to stand in line for hours and pay a zillion dollars for a hotel.
Don’t miss it!!!
