PHOTO VIA APPLETON MUSEUM OF ART
The Appleton Museum of Art (Website) has a new exhibition focused on the work of Florida-based artist and quilter Betty Ford-Smith (Website), who specialises in unique, hand-sewn pinecone quilts, and runs through February 22.
Ford-Smith’s quilts draw on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century pinecone quilt traditions and are built through a process that starts from a small center square and expands outward in concentric circles. The Appleton notes that a single quilt can take more than six months to complete and may involve more than 4,000 individually cut and folded fabric pieces.
The exhibition places Ford-Smith’s contemporary quilts alongside antique examples and related works and also highlights the physical scale of the pieces, with some quilts weighing up to 30 pounds and spanning up to nine feet.
Under the Cover of Knowledge is on view in the Edith-Marie Gallery on the first floor of the Appleton Museum of Art, located at 4333 E. Silver Springs Boulevard [GMap] in Ocala.
