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Shelly Zegarts love of American antique quilts began in the mid 1970s when she discovered quilts to use as art on the walls of her newly built contemporary home. From the first night she was shown a large group of quilts for sale, an intense and ever expanding passion for quilts, their history and the stories they tell was born. Reared in quilt- rich western Pennsylvania, Zegart settled in 1968, in Louisville, Kentucky, another area where quilting has long been practiced with skill and passion. Co-founder and driving force behind The Kentucky Quilt Project, the first state quilt documentation project, she has gone on to collect, curate, lecture and write about quilts for more than 25 years. She was an organizer in 1991-1992 of Louisville Celebrates the American Quilt a group of events, exhibitions and publications planned to illustrate and further the developments in the field over the twenty years since the beginning of the current quilt revival. She has curated many exhibits here and abroad, including an exhibition of Kentucky quilts in Australia in 1987 for the Womens Committee of the National Trust of Australia. In 1999 she curated Kentucky Quilts: Roots and Wings, a traveling exhibition and catalogue organized by the Kentucky Folk Art Center at Morehead University that examined the Kentucky quilt mystique past and present. . In 2001 she co-curated three quilt exhibitions titled A Heritage of Genius: American Master Quilts Past and Present in lobby galleries of the Durst Organization buildings in mid town Manhattan and wrote the accompanying catalogue. She was the sole consultant to the author and publisher of the Phyllis George book Living With Quilts, (1999). Most recent exhibitions, publications and consulting projects include The Quilts of Gees Bend publications (2002); and Mosaic Textiles: In Search of the Hexagon (an international comparative exhibition representing nine countries) Rouen, France. (2003).

 

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