HOW TO PUT ON A SHOW with quilt curator Marin Hanson
A few weeks ago, I caught up with quilt researcher and author Janneken Smucker to thumb through her new book together. If you haven’t heard our conversation yet on A New Deal for Quilts, I recommend you go back and catch that episode first, and then come join me for this conversation. Because today we’re going behind the scenes, behind the book, and into the International Quilt Museum itself. I’m joined by the curator of International collections at IQM, Marin Hanson, to hear what it was like to put together the exhibition for A New Deal for Quilts. I know very little about how curators pull off such a quilt feat, so I had all kinds of questions.
In this conversation Marin and I discuss:
① a curator’s calculus for choosing the perfect quilts
② the significance of feed sacks in quilt-making
③ the impact of quilts on the human experience
