quilt making
September 28, 2023
Gallery talk: Quilts in a cabinet
Janneken Smucker, a Goshen College graduate, spoke on Sept. 16 in the Good Library Gallery about the 17 quilts on display for the exhibit “A Cabinet of Curiosities 3,” which showcases Anabaptist clocks, ceramics and quilts. Her talk brought audience members from in and around the GC community, with roughly 50 people in attendance. Smucker is a fifth-generation quilt maker and currently serves as a professor of history at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. “I began making quilts when I was a teenager,” she said. “I was an artistic kid and loved to have projects going on.” Joe Springer, the...