QUILTS
Resources for Collectors and Researchers
Robert Shaw: Consulting
Services for Useful
links for quilt lovers, artists and collectors Links to Selected Master Quiltmakers' Sites
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Felis Forever I, Nancy Erickson, 2003
Courtesy of the artist Articles and essays by Robert Shaw
Some Thoughts
About Art Quilts
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· APPRAISER: Current, accurate, market-based appraisals are essential to every collector, institution, or artist. I offer formal written appraisals of quilts for tax and insurance purposes. I have appraised quilts for artists, collectors, and institutions wishing to establish and document insurance values for their work and for collectors donating quilts to museums.
· AUTHOR, EDITOR, BOOK PRODUCER: I have
written many critically acclaimed books, articles, and essays
on traditional and contemporary folk art and hand crafts, and
have edited and produced books, catalogs, and calendars for museums,
corporations, publishers, and individuals. I can help you
produce a high quality publication of any kind and provide expert
design, photography, printing, and distribution options to you,
taking your idea from concept to bound book or facilitating anything
in between. My Vermont-based team can provide book development
and editing, copy editing, and book and cover design, and guide
your book through printing by award-winning presses.
· CONSULTANT AND ART ADVISOR: Knowledge is power. Every
serious collector needs and relies on unbiased expert advice.
My experience can save time and money and help avoid costly mistakes.
I have worked with many museums, businesses, and private collectors
to analyze and catalog collections and set goals for collection
development and care. I can act as your private curator and help
you focus your collecting activities, set realistic goals, and
find and acquire appropriate objects. I can also advise on museum-quality
care, display, and conservation of your collections.
· CURATOR: I can plan and organize your exhibition,
make arrangements for loans, photography and shipping, and write
and edit catalogs. I curated the landmark exhibition,
"The 100 Best American Quilts of the 20th Century,"
shown at International Quilt Festival in 1999, and also
have curated exhibitions at the Tokyo Great International Quilt
Festival, the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution's
Renwick Gallery, the University of Michigan Art Museum, the
Houston Museum of Natural Science, The Shelburne Museum, the
Dallas Museum of Natural Science, the New England Quilt Museum,
and many other institutions and expositions in the US, Europe,
and Japan.
· SHOW AND CONTEST JUROR: I have juried dozens
of quilt shows, contests, and competitions, including Quilt National,
Quilt Visions, The Husqvarna Gallery of Quilt Art, The Millennium
Quilt Contest, The Great Arkansas Quilt Festival, The Front Range
Quilters "Elements" exhibition, Hands All Around: International
Quilts, and Tactile Architecture. My extensive curatorial knowledge
and broad artistic perspective will lend depth and credibility
to any show or contest.
Art Quilts: A Celebration is a beautifully designed and printed compendium of quilts from the past decade of Quilt National exhibitions, from 1995 to 2003. I contributed a substantial introduction that traces the history of quiltmaking and puts the quilts in the book into context, as well as a special section on collecting, displaying, and storing art quilts. The book includes photographs of more than 400 quilts. The spectacular full page color photographs accompany the artists' illuminating personal commentary. Softcover, 512 pp- 8 1/2 x 11. At $24.95, this is a lot of book for the money. |
First brought to the islands by missionaries
and traders in the late 19th century, quilting in Hawaii adapted
to the physical and cultural environment of the islands to become
a distinctive art form. The earliest quilt in this collection
of Hawaiian masterworks dates from 1874 and the most recent from
1995. Following the format of his earlier Quilts: A Living Tradition,
Shaw includes a detailed color photograph, a historical introduction,
and a critique for each of the 48 quilts. Essential for textile
history collections." Hardcover, 12 x 9 in., 120 pp., 50 full-page color photos. Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1997. ISBN: 0-88363-396-5 |
The Art
Quilt Hardcover, 14 x 11 in., 312 pp., more than 300 color photos. Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1997. ISBN: 0-88363-952-1 |
"This volume stands out amid a plethora
of books on the history of the quilt, not only for the richness
of its carefully chosen illustrations but also for the wealth
of information it conveys. Highly recommended." Hardcover, 14 x 11 in. 312 pp., over 300 color photos. Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1994. ISBN: 0-88363-395-7. Out of print. |
The Alliance for American Quilts: Center for the Quilt Online The Alliance is a non-profit organization which is bridging the worlds of grassroots quilt research and academia together, opening up new horizons for quilt study and appreciation. Their web site provides information about their many projects as well as dozens of links to other quilt sites.
American Quilt Study Group The oldest quilt research organization. The AQSG Library is now at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, where it is accessible to the International Quilt Study Center. Many books are available for loan
The Library of Congress The mother lode. Anyone with an interest in folk art or traditional American culture is directed to the LOC's American Folklife Center
Quilt National is a biennial international juried exhibition of contemporary innovative quilts. The first Quilt National was shown in 1979. Quilt National '05 is the fourteenth of these exhibitions.. Quilt National's purpose is "to carry the definition of quilting far beyond its traditional parameters and to promote quiltmaking as what it always has been -- an art form."
Quilt Visions is a not-for-profit international arts organization "dedicated to the promotion and appreciation of the quilt as art." To that end Visions presents a biennial juried exhibition and also runs a non-profit gallery in San Diego.
Studio Art Quilt Associates The largest and most active organization of and for contemporary studio quilt makers. SAQA sponsors exhibitions, conferences, and workshops for quilt makers, and promotes awareness of the art quilt to galleries, museums, collectors, and the public-at-large.
Smithsonian Archives of American Art has collected roughly 16 million letters, photographs, diaries, sketches, scrapbooks, business records, and other documentation that supports the study of the history of the visual arts in America. Among the approximately 2,000 interviews conducted for AAA's Oral History Program are extensive talks with Nancy Crow and Michael James.
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