Michigan Quilt Project
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(updated: 08/12/08) Contact: Michigan State University Museum Michigan Quilt Project Records housed: Michigan Traditional Arts Project, Michigan State University Museum quilts@museum.msu.edu MSU Museum, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1045 (517) 432-3800
Documentation Dates: 1984 - present
Parameters: Quilts--regardless of age, technique, or original provenance--that were made in Michigan or by a Michigander or have meaning to a Michigander or Michigan organization.
Total Quilts: over 9,000
Total Documentation Days: over 75
Publication information (if any):
- MacDowell, Marsha and Fitzgerald, Ruth. Michigan Quilts: 150 Years of a Textile Tradition. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Museum, 1987.
- African American Quiltmaking in Michigan, Marsha MacDowell, Michigan State University Press, 1997.
- American Quilts from Michigan State University Museum, Kokusai Art, Tokyo, Japan, 2003.
- Great Lakes, Great Quilts, From the Michigan State University Museum, Marsha MacDowell, C&T Publishing, Lafayette, CA, 2001.
- Mary Schafer and Her Quilts, Gwen Marston and Joe Cunningham, Michigan State University Museum Press, 1990.
- Michigan Quilts, 150 Years of Textile Tradition; Marsha McDowell and Ruth B. Fitzgerald, editors; Michigan State University Museum Press, 1987.
- Q is for Quilt, Gwen Marston and Kate Darnell, MSU Museum, East Lansing, MI, 1987.
Quilts from the Albert and Merry Silber Collection; Lynne Swanson and Marsha MacDowell, MSU Museum, East Lansing, MI, 1988.
- To Honor and Comfort, Native Quilting Traditions; Marsha L. MacDowell, C. Kurt Dewhurst; Museum of New Mexico Press and Michigan State University Museum, 1997.
Database: Yes- records are launched in the Quilt Index.
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