Piedmont Arts' 14th biennial "Art of the Quilt" exhibit to return this November featuring regionally and locally made quilts. Piedmont Arts is a nonprofit art museum in Martinsville that aims to inspire and engage the diverse Martinsville-Henry County community and surrounding areas through visual arts, performing arts and arts education. The museum is a statewide partner of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.
Piedmont Arts programming is partially supported by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. The museum switches through multiple vastly different exhibits throughout the year, with a few that reoccur. This quilt exhibit, curated by master quilter Linda M.
Fiedler and quilter Betty Blessin, has taken place every two years in Martinsville since 1998 and will feature quilts by more than 40 artists from around the Southeast. People are also reading..
. Blessin joined Fielder as co-curator in 2018 and both artists have participated in the exhibit in the past. The exhibits didn't always have a theme but a few years back they began incorporating different ideas to bring the exhibits together thematically like with the last theme of "Unity.
" This year's theme is "ex-peri-ment" and will feature both handand machine-stitched quilts, contemporary textiles and two group challenges. A "challenge" is when a group of quilters all create quilts with a common theme, pattern, stitch or material. Chal.