Border to Border: Historic Quilts and Quiltmakers
An art that requires determination, hard work, and an innate sense of beauty is celebrated in the new, coffee-table-size book Border to Border: Historic Quilts and Quiltmakers of Montana.
Helena native Annie Hanshew, a doctoral student at the University of Utah and the assistant director of the American West Center, wove together the compelling stories and images, with an introduction by Mary Murphy, a history professor at Montana State University.
The book, published by the Montana Historical Society Press, contains more than 300 photographs, many of them in color, of historic Montana quilts, as well as of the people who made them.
Quilts from Montana’s territorial period, statehood and settlement, the hard times of the Great Depression, modern Montana, and the quilting revival under way today offer what Hanshew calls “snapshots” of births, deaths, transformation, weddings, and daily life.
“They are stories writ small, stories that don’t make their way into history books but are stitched into the seams of Dresden Plate, Grandmother’s Flower Garden, and crazy quilts,”… Read more
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First Night: Celebrating the New Year in Missoula and the Flathead
Performing, visual and literary artists showcase their diverse talents from 1 p.m. to midnight Dec. 31 in Missoula and from 7 p.m.-12:30 a.m. in Kalispell and Columbia Falls. These alcohol-free events for the entire family offer a spirited, arts-imbued way to welcome the New Year. Read more