Stitching Together History at the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival

This exhibition will be on display at the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival at the Hampton Roads Convention Center.
1610 Colesium Drive
Hampton, VA 23666
Show Hours are 10:00 am until 5:00 pm Thursday - Saturday and 10:00 am until 4:00 pm on Sunday.

In fall 2023, the Virginia Quilt Museum invited quilters to create 20” x 20” quilts depicting a person, place, idea, or event from Virginia or West Virginia history. 136 quilters nationwide answered the call, creating 260 quilts; 80 were selected for this traveling exhibition. These quilts commemorate America’s 250th anniversary, organized into four themes: Power of Place, Unfinished Revolutions, We the People, and Virginia Experiments. From the earliest Indigenous tribes, to settlers seeking freedom and opportunity, to enslaved Africans whose labor built the state’s economy, to the diverse voices of today, Virginia's history is a quilt stitched of many threads.

Photos below are Ticked Off by Lisa Arthaud and Enslaved People at Mount Vernon by Luana Rubin.