July Quilt Exhibits

The Southeastern Quilt and Textile Museum opens three exhibits this July. Each of these exhibits will use quilting to tell personal stories reflecting the maker’s experiences given the time and place when each piece was created.

Southern White Amnesia by Zak Foster, is an examination of the family stories white Americans pass down through generations—or allow to be forgotten—about their role in slavery and its ongoing legacy. Through traditional quilting techniques subverted for contemporary discourse, the artist explores their own family history as enslavers in South Carolina and Kentucky, creating works that range from a topographic burial ground quilt to AI-enhanced video installations of ancestral portraits. SWA will be on display until Aug. 24, 2025. Learn more www.zakfoster.com/southern-white-amnesia

In juxtaposition, SQTM will also be showing historic family quilts and textiles from our permanent collection. Many of these quilts were donated with partial family stories, leaving us wondering about the lives of these makers and what stories were lost to time. These quilts will be presented with their family stories, along with additional information SQTM was able to glean from historical research and the textile itself.

Our final Gallery will feature quilts made by young quilters, showing off the skills of quilters under the age of 18. This space will include quilted creations from former SQTM Quilt Campers. These quilts will be on display until Sept. 13.