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The Smithsonian Quilt Controversy: Cultural Dislocation

1993
Elsley, Judy
United States
From Uncoverings 1993, Volume 14 of the Research Papers of the American Quilt Study Group
Judy Elsley has been an assistant professor at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah for the last three years where she teaches writing and literature classes in the English department. In 1990, she completed a Ph.D. dissertation entitled "The Semiotics of Quilting: Discourse of the Marginalized," at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Judy Elsley recently collaborated with Cheryl Torsney to edit an anthology of essays theorizing quilting. Quilt Culture: Tracing the Pattern will be published by the University of Missouri Press in Spring 1994.

​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 Uncoverings 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 1993, Volume 14, at this link, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/aqsg-uncoverings/14/.

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