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Reflections on Quilt History: Accomplishments and Challenges

2009
Gunn, Virginia
United States
From Uncoverings 2009, Volume 30 of the Research Papers of the American Quilt Study Group
Virginia Gunn is a professor of Clothing, Textiles, and Interiors in the School of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Akron in Ohio. She teaches course on the history of costume and fashion, the history of interior design, and material culture studies. She holds a B.S. in Home Economics Education from Kansas State University, an M.S. in Applied Art from Syracuse University, and Ph.D. in History from the University of Akron. She is a past president (1990-1993) and board member (1984-1994) of the American Quilt Study Group, and she edited Uncoverings from 1994 to 2003. Her publications focus on quilts, coverlets, and women's history.

​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 2009, Volume 30, at this link, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/aqsg-uncoverings/31/.

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