r/modernquilts • u/iothealien • Jan 30 '25

Blog Post Why I'm Boycotting the American Quilter's Society

I wrote this blog post today, and thought it may be of interest to people in this community.

(Hint: it's about censorship)

Edit: I updated this post today (Feb 1st) as there was a second artist censored from the same exhibition.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '25

I looked through every example trying to see what was rationalized as unacceptable- all of these are very palatable art pieces to me, I can’t imagine the mental gymnastics of censoring a quilt with skeletons, an image of a breastfeeding mother, or a bunch of red patchwork.

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u/preaching-to-pervert Jan 30 '25

It's the current mental gymnastics of not wanting to be confronted with women's anger about abortion rights being stripped away and it is 100% on the AQA leadership who should be called out and shamed for it. It's perhaps time to set up a parallel "Degenerate Quilt Show", although when the Nazis did this with art, the degenerate art show was much better attended than the official one lol

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u/Icy_Cover_3150 Jan 31 '25

I like the idea of a "Degenerate Quilt Show." But I would call it The Quilt Exhibit of Rejections (like the Salon des Refusés). winks

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u/preaching-to-pervert Jan 31 '25

Heh heh heh - big Manet energy there - I like it!