Join us at the Museum for this year’s Community Appreciation Day! Enjoy interactive, drop-in artmaking activities inspired by artwork in our current exhibitions, learn about our programming, and participate in an engaging tour. 

Guided exhibition tours will be offered at: 3 pm, 4 pm, and 5 pm. Space is limited; please register via: education@folkartmuseum.org. Join us outside the Museum from 11:30 am-3 pm for drop-in artmaking, open to all ages.

Our event partner is Quilt Alliance (https://quiltalliance.org/) whose mission is to document, preserve, and share our American quilt heritage by collecting the rich stories that historic and contemporary quilts, and their makers, tell about our nation’s diverse peoples and their communities.

As part of this year’s Community Appreciation Day, we are inviting the public to participate in 3-minute conversational interviews—part of Quilt Alliance’s Go Tell It! project (https://quiltalliance.org/projects/gotellit/) in the Museum galleries. Individuals will be asked to select a work from the exhibition What That Quilt Knows About Me and share their own reflection, which will become part of the Quilt Alliance’s living archive. To learn more about participating in this project, or to sign-up for an interview time (11:30 am-3 pm), please contact Community Engagement Educator Claudia Maturell: cmaturell@folkartmuseum.org. 

About Go Tell It!

This project is designed to capture the stories behind the quilt. The formula for “Go Tell It!” is simple: one person talking about one quilt in front of one camera for three minutes. Anyone can do a “Go Tell It!” interview: quiltmakers, quilt appreciators, recipients of quilts, quilt collectors, curators or historians. We’re saving these quilts’ stories, three minutes at a time! For examples and to learn more about Quilt Alliance’s quilt story collection, click here.

*Please note that space is limited and registration is required.Want to participate but can’t make it to the Museum? No problem! There is an at-home option where you can respond to one of the artworks in the exhibition, or share your own quilt and its history! Please click here for submission information and to upload your video.