Presented by Jennifer Swope
Join Jennifer Swope, the David and Roberta Logie Curator of Textiles at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Katie Delmez, senior curator at the Frist Art Museum, for this conversation about the exhibition Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories.
About Jennifer Swope
Jennifer Swope is the David and Roberta Logie Curator of Textiles at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She attended the Winterthur Program in American Culture as a Lois F. McNeil Fellow, receiving a master’s degree in American material culture from the University of Delaware. Co-author and curator of Quilts and Color: The Pilgrim/Roy Collection, a catalog and exhibition that opened at the MFA in 2014, she most recently co-authored the publication Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories and curated of the exhibition of the same title. The exhibition opened at the MFA in October 2021, then traveled the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles in November 2022. It was on view at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens in Jacksonville, Florida, during the summer of 2024 and opens at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 27, 2025.
Hoosier Suffrage Quilt, before 1920. Cotton plain weave, pieced, embroidered, and quilted. Frank B. Bemis Fund and with funds donated anonymously. Photograph @ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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