Art exhibition to highlight the Amish tradition of quilt making

Quilting in Community: A Celebration of a Southern Indiana Amish Tradition will be on display January 27 - March 13, 2016, at the McCutchan Art Center/Pace Galleries at the University of Southern Indiana. The exhibition will focus on the contemporary quilts, quilt makers, and the Southern Indiana Amish community. The quilts on display are drawn from USI's Morton Quilt Collection and related archival information and research. Judy Morton '73 and the late Tom Morton of Newburgh, Indiana, donated the Morton Quilt Collection to the University of Southern Indiana in 2013.

The collection will feature several Amish contemporary quilts and is recognizing the makers of the quilts by name, an uncommon practice in Amish culture. This exhibit will present and celebrate Amish qualities reflected in the craftsmanship of quilts.

There will be a free public reception from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, January 31. Quilt collector and expert Judy Morton will attend along with Susan Colaricci Sauls, curator of the exhibit and Registrar of the USI Art Collection. Sauls will make brief remarks about the exhibition and its cultural and aesthetic importance.

This is an endorsed Indiana Bicentennial Commission Legacy Project event. Please visit the Indiana Bicentennial Commission website, www.indiana2016.org, to view other endorsed Bicentennial Legacy Projects, news and events.

The Kenneth P. McCutchan Art Center/Palmina F. and Stephen S. Pace Galleries is located in the lower level of the Liberal Arts Center on the USI campus. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Visit usi.edu/liberal-arts/art-center-galleries for more information.