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They'll Award Prizes in The News Quilt Show

November 14, 1933
Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser; Lynne Charlet
Detroit, Michigan, United States
An article by introducing the judges for The Detroit News Quilt Show.
They'll Award Prizes in The News Quilt Show
Mrs.Adele Coulin Weibel. Mrs. Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Miss Florence La Ganke.

Here are the three women who face the difficult but interesting taks of awarding the 17 cash prizes for Detroit News quilts and the bunch of blue ribbons for antique quilts, in the mammoth Detroit News Quilt Show, which opens at the Naval Armory, 7600 Jefferson avenue, Friday, noon. Mrs. Ferry, society woman and hoome maker, is interested in early American art; Mrs. Weibel is curator of textiles at the Detroit Institute of Arts, and Miss La Ganke is director of the women's activities of the Building Arts Exhibit, Inc. of Cleveland.
3 Women To Judge Quilts Entered in News Contest

By Edith B. Crumb.

Three different points of view will be represented by the three women who will serve as judges in The Detroit News Quilt Show, which opens at the Naval Armory, 7600 Jefferson avenue, at Belle Isle Bridge, Friday noon.

The three women are Mrs. Dexter, M. Ferry, Jr., representing one of Detroit's oldest and most distinguished families, wife of the president of the Detroit Museum of Art Founders' Society, a home woman interested in early American decorative arts; Mrs. Adele Coulin Weibel, curator of textiles at the Detroit Institute of Arts, whose interest centers largely in the technical aspect of quilting and the artistic ensemble, and Miss Florence LaGanke, of Cleveland, O., who, as organizer of one of the biggest quilt clubs in the country, had judges scores of quilt competitions and is familiar with every phase of antique and modern quilt-making.

These three women have accepted the Herculean labor of passing upon more than 1,500 quilts, and selecting the 17 best quilts made from The News patterns, for the 17 cash prizes offered by The News as well as a group of the best antique quilts which will be designated by blue ribbons denoting honorable mention.

No cash prizes will be awarded for antique quilts, because the skill and art which goes into their making represents no merit on the part of the owner. The finest of these old quilts will be honored by ribbons, but the cash prizes will all go to the women who, by hard work and infinite pains, have created in this busy age, works of beauty comparable to those made by their grandmothers in a more leisurely day.

Quilts for the contest must be brought to The News before 5 p. m. Wednesday.

The quilt show, which opens Friday noon, will remain on view until 10 p. m. Friday evening and on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a. m. until 10 p. m. Admission is free.

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
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