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Photo, Print, Drawing 1996 Kids Quilt

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Title

  • 1996 Kids Quilt

Names

  • Jacksonville Beach Elementary School (Jacksonville Beach, Fla.) students; Lowey-Ball, Heidi Blake, l (Creator)

Created / Published

  • Jacksonville Beach, Florida, September, 1995 - May, 1996

Headings

  • -  Quilting
  • -  quilt tops
  • -  batting (textiles)
  • -  hand quilting
  • -  machine quilting
  • -  quilting bees
  • -  quilting groups
  • -  synthetic fabrics
  • -  art quilts
  • -  cotton fabrics
  • -  pictorial quilts
  • -  quilt art
  • -  wholecloth quilts
  • -  Photographs
  • -  United States -- Florida -- Jacksonville Beach

Genre

  • Photographs

Notes

  • -  Quilt size: 72" x 72"
  • -  The following information was supplied by the quiltmaker: / "Hands of all sizes and colors stitched together The Peaceable Planet Quilt at Jacksonville Beach Elementary School. Our goal was to learn about major artists and their works through an integrated project which combined art lessons with quilting and the celebration of non-violence in our school. The quilt was fashioned after Ewa Zadrzynska's The Peaceable Kingdom. In this book the animals from Edward Hick's painting come alive to see if peace has come to earth. Students recreated the painting by drawing original pictures in art classes where they had studied the work of a major artist. These pictures were transferred to muslin and painted using Batikit dye. The students chose to docking of the Russian space station Mir with the US space shuttle and observing of the Olympics to remind them of peace in today's world. The quilt was stretched on a frame in the library were 109 individuals from the school and community joined with 496 students to handstitch the quilt. These volunteers included police officers, electricians, teachers, parents, custodians, mayors, politicians, and artists. The stitchers were all invited to speak with students and to document their thoughts and sign in a guest book. Many stories were shared by the differing groups as they quilted together. One bus driver came in 30 minutes early each day to take out mistakes in stitching and an older woman quilted every Thursday and helped children understand the history in quilts. Stitching became a sharing and quiet time which did reflect a wonderful spirit of cooperation and non-violence. Our quilt was entered in the All American Quilt contest offerred by Good Housekeeping magazine where it took a special cash award."
  • -  If your quilt is based on a traditional pattern or an earlier quilt, what is the name of the pattern? Where did you learn the pattern? "The pattern was designed by children after Edward Hicks' painting of The Peaceable Kingdom. The 496 children (K-5) and 109 community members quilted together over one week to support peace in our schools."
  • -  Quiltmaker's motivation: The quilt commemorates "Victory Over Violence Week."
  • -  "The students of our school (496 grades K-5) learned to quilt on this quilt. The quilt was on a frame in the school library for several months and kids quilted every day."
  • -  For rights information please contact the Folklife Reading Room at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.contact

Medium

  • Color transparency

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1997/011: Folder 9053 P1

Source Collection

  • Lands' End All-American Quilt Collection (AFC 1997/011)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Online Format

  • image

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Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project collection, 1977-1981 (AFC 1982/009), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Lands' End all-American quilt collection, 1992-1997 (AFC 1997/011), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Jacksonville Beach Elementary School. Kids Quilt. United States Jacksonville Beach Florida, 1996. Jacksonville Beach, Florida, September, - May, 1996. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/qlt000550/.

APA citation style:

Jacksonville Beach Elementary School. (1996) Kids Quilt. United States Jacksonville Beach Florida, 1996. Jacksonville Beach, Florida, September, - May, 1996. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/qlt000550/.

MLA citation style:

Jacksonville Beach Elementary School. Kids Quilt. Jacksonville Beach, Florida, September, - May, 1996. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/qlt000550/>.