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Author Parron, Suzi.

Title Barn quilts and the American Quilt Trail movement / Suzi Parron with Donna Sue Groves.

Imprint Athens : Swallow Press, 2012.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  725.37 Par    ---  Available
Description avii, 234 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Source NBK 10/13 PPL
Note Includes index.
Summary " The story of the American Quilt Trail, featuring the colorful patterns of quilt squares writ large on barns throughout North America, is the story of one of the fastest-growing grassroots public arts movements in the United States and Canada. In Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement Suzi Parron travels through twenty-nine states and two Canadian provinces to visit the people and places that have put this movement on America's tourist and folk art map. Through dozens of interviews with barn artists, committee members, and barn owners Parron documents a journey that began in 2001 with the founder of the movement, Donna Sue Groves. Groves's desire to honor her mother with a quilt square painted on their barn became a group effort that eventually grew into a county-wide project. Today, registered quilt squares form a long imaginary clothesline, appearing on more than three thousand barns scattered along one hundred driving trails. With more than fifty full-color photographs, Parron documents a movement that combines rural economic development with an American folk art phenomenon. "-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note 1
Subject Barns -- Pictorial works.
Barns -- Canada -- Pictorial works.
Outdoor art -- Themes, motives.
Outdoor art -- Canada -- Themes, motives.
Culture and tourism -- Pictorial works.
Culture and tourism -- Canada -- Pictorial works.
Added Author Groves, Donna Sue.
ISBN 9780804011389 (pbk.) : $29.95
0804011389 (pbk.)

 
    
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