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Quilts and Their Stories: Revealing a Hidden History

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From Uncoverings 2000, Volume 21 of the Research Papers of the American Quilt Study Group

2000

By: MacDowell, Marsha

Marsha MacDowell, Ph.D., a professor of art, is curator of folk arts at the Michigan State University Museum. Marsha coordinates the Michi­gan Quilt Project and the Michigan Traditional Arts Program. She has served AQSG as president, vice-president, and board member. Her re­search focuses on traditional arts of Native Americans, the Great Lakes region, and South Africa.

​When AQSG added Uncoverings articles to the Quilt Index, they omitted all the illustrations, for lack of permissions. Although the articles found in the QI (1980-2010, 2012-2016) lack illustrations, they link to quilts, essays, special collections, and documentation projects across the Quilt Index, introducing them to a wider audience. The permission issues have since been resolved and in 2024, AQSG completed adding all the Uncovering volumes from 1980-2023 to the Digital Commons@University of Nebraska-Lincoln. They are completely searchable and include all the illustrations. You can find, Uncoverings 2000, Volume 21, at this link, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/aqsg-uncoverings/40/.