Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement

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The story of the American Quilt Trail, featuring the colorful patterns of quilt squares writ large on barns during North The us, is the tale of some of the fastest-growing grassroots public arts movements in the USA and Canada. In Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement Suzi Parron travels through twenty-nine states and two Canadian provinces to seek advice from the people and places that have put this movement on The us’s tourist and folk art map.

Through dozens of interviews with barn artists, committee members, and barn owners Parron documents a journey that started in 2001 with the founder of the movement, Donna Sue Groves. Groves’s desire to honor her mother with a quilt square painted on their barn turned into a group effort that at last grew into a county-wide project. Nowadays, registered quilt squares form a long imaginary clothesline, appearing on more than three thousand barns scattered along one hundred driving trails.

With more than fifty full-color photographs, Parron documents a movement that combines rural economic development with an American folk art phenomenon.

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