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New Textile Exhibitions at the Colonial Williamsburg’s

Expanded Art Museums

WILLIAMSBURG, VA – Visitors to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art
Museum, one of the two expanded Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg
in Williamsburg, Virginia, will experience two new textile exhibitions this
summer: The Art of the Quilter in the Foster and Muriel McCarl Gallery,
and Navajo Weavings: Adapting Tradition in the Mary B. and William
Lehman Guyton Gallery in early August. These exhibitions are certain to be
popular with museum goers as exhibitions displaying Colonial
Williamsburg’s renowned quilt collection have always been favorites of
Art Museums guests, and Navajo Weavings: Tradition and Trade, the first
exhibition at Colonial Williamsburg on loan from the collection of
American folk art enthusiasts Pat and Rex Lucke, has been embraced by
visitors since it opened in 2018.
“Colonial Williamsburg’s curators have worked diligently over the last
twenty years to ensure that our collections represent the diversity of the
American people,” said Ronald L. Hurst, the institution’s Carlisle H.
Humelsine Chief Curator and vice president for museums, preservation, quilts tell stories about people from America’s past and the societies in which
and historic resources. “That critical work is ongoing, and these two exhibi- they lived; some bedcovers in the exhibition recalled milestone events in the
tions are clear evidence of our determination to use remarkable objects in lives of the makers, such as marriages, births or deaths. Others, such as
telling a more complete and fulsome story.” album quilts, were created as reminders of friends and family left behind
The Art of the Quilter will delight quilt aficionados new and old. A three- after a move that documented an increasingly mobile society in the nine-
year exhibition that will rotate a selection of bed quilts from the early nine- teenth century as people moved westward to new lands and opportunities.
teenth-century to present day, it will feature twelve examples each year from Due to the popularity of Navajo Weavings: Tradition and Trade, the first
Colonial Williamsburg’s superlative collection. Most of the quilts to be on Native American textiles exhibition at the Art Museums, the Luckes have
display have never been shown before and many are recent acquisitions. The generously loaned six more weavings to be shown in a new exhibition,
Navajo Weavings: Adapting Tradition, none of which have been displayed at
Colonial Williamsburg before. This exhibition will remain on view through
December 2022.
More exhibit information as well as tickets are available online at
colonialwilliamsburg.org, by calling 855-296-6627 and by following
Colonial Williamsburg on Facebook.

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