The most recent addition to the galleries of the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center Museum is a display of over 50 quilts.
This show is from the collection of Sherry Cook, Skamania. Quilts of all types, themes and sizes are the main attraction on first and second floors of the museum.
Photographs accompany many of the quilts as an introduction to the family member who made the quilt and, in some cases, the individual for whom it was made.
The quilts are everywhere you look and depict a wide variety of patterns. For example, Cook made a quilt with an airplane theme for her husband who is a retired pilot and is interested in any and all airplanes. Appropriately it is placed near the 1917 Curtiss "Jenny," a WWII biplane on loan from Eleanor Olson and family.
In addition to providing an attraction to the public, Cook wanted to have the museum feature quilts representing her family history for a special interest group, the American Quilt Study Group from Lincoln, Neb.
AQSG is having its 25th annual seminar at the Red Lion Inn at the Quay in Vancouver. Cook is cochair and says, "The American Quilt Study Group is the most trusted and largest research group on the history of quilts. We have over 1,000 members from all over the world. Each year six research papers are presented at the seminar and published in the book "Uncoverings."
The Cook Quilt Collection is on display through Oct. 31.
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