Join in the Alberta Quilt Project at Red Deer MAG

Do You Own a Heritage Quilt?

The Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery is hosting a public Quilt Documentation Day on Friday, October 26th , 2018 from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm. Lucie Heins, Assistant Curator at the Royal Alberta Museum will be conducting the event. This is an opportunity to have your family quilt(s) documented and photographed in order to preserve its history and contribution to Alberta’s quilting history (Appointment required for quilt documentation). Lucie will look at the techniques and materials used to make the quilt and also try to collect as much history about the quilt and quiltmaker as possible. Only pre-1970 quilts will be considered at this time unless a heritage quilt top was finished after 1970. If you own a heritage or family quilt made in Alberta or as part of the immigrant story to Alberta, it may be a good candidate.

The Western Canadian History Program at the Royal Alberta Museum has been working on an Alberta Craft Research Initiative to document the material culture of craft production within the Alberta context. The Alberta Quilt Project, a component of this research initiative, is presently looking at heritage quilts made in Alberta or brought by immigrants to Alberta.

The objective of the Alberta Quilt Project is to examine Alberta quilts and in the process capture the Alberta quilting story. Most history books written about quilts in Canada are about quilts in eastern Canada. We want to change that. The information captured through the quilt documentation events and interviews will help us tell that history.