QUILT SQUARE --GRANDMOTHER'S FAN
The squares are mostly seen on the large barns in the rural parts of Kentucky. Also, you can find them on some of the smaller farm outbuildings. In addition to the farm buildings some local commercial places are mounting squares. This post covers the squares found on a few of the local Berea merchants.Community quilt squares are a grass root movement in several states mostly in the Midwest. It began in about 2001 in Ohio and has moved swiftly through several states. Kentucky's Arts Council Program has adopted this movement and assists folks that want to become participants in the Quilt Square Project. Right now there are over 59 counties in Kentucky participating. There is a wonderful book published on Kentucky's quilt squares and following trails set up for people to view them -- titled Kentucky Quilt Trails: Views and Voices.
PIRATE STAR
The Kentucky project is basically run by volunteers which helps tighten community ties. Participants include people from the area in designing each individual and different square -- from painters to extension agents, senior citizens and school children -- even the local electric company lends a bucket truck to hoist the squares into place on the building. The final result is not only a piece of folk art but a piece of communtiy building.
The Kentucky Foundation For Women supports the project as they feel that it becomes a lasting legacy of binding women across place and time. And that the Quilt Trail honors the power of women's art to strengthen families and communities.
DUTCH WINDMILL IS MOUNTED ON THE BACKSIDE OF THIS HISTORIC BEREA BUILDING -- THE OLD BEREA HOTEL BUILT AROUND 1915
The Madison County Quilt Square project receives grants and donations to make their project viable. For more information on Madison county's squares you can contact Madison County Extension or Kentucky Arts Council.
VIEW MY OTHER POSTS ON QUILTS SQUARES AND QUILTS BELOW:
KENTUCKY QUILT 1885 WITH PROVENANCE
QUILT SQUARES ON BARNS
VIEW MY OTHER POSTS ON QUILTS SQUARES AND QUILTS BELOW:
KENTUCKY QUILT 1885 WITH PROVENANCE
QUILT SQUARES ON BARNS