The National Quilt Museum

A new exhibit at Paducah’s National Quilt Museum is aimed at provoking reflection on the tough times that the world has been through with COVID-19, bringing together pandemic-related pieces created since last March to the gallery.

“Quarantine Quilts: Creativity in the Midst of Chaos” — juried by Sandra Sider, curator of the Texas Quilt Museum and editor of SAQA’s “Art Quilt Quarterly” — opened on June 4. Everything in the exhibit is something that an artist created since the pandemic swept the country last spring.

“I’m really glad we got this exhibit. I feel like it’s a statement on what we all lived through in 2020,” outgoing museum CEO Frank Bennett said. “It’s a rare case where literally everyone around the globe dealt with the same emotions, thoughts, feelings and uncertainty all at the same time.

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