Interview with Stitches Magazine

1853 Sarah Ann Cator (TSS 108)
Grassland, Williamson Co.
16 ¹⁄4"V x 16 ¹⁄2"H
wool on 30 ct. linen

Stitches magazine staff writer Chris Ruvo interviewed Janet and me last week. Here is the result. I think he did a great job, don't you?

Exhibit Opens: TSLA

preparing the panels for hanging...

The Tennessee Sampler Survey is pleased to announce the opening of a new traveling exhibit, Tennessee Samplers: 19th Century Schoolgirl Embroidery.

The exhibit will be on view at the Tennessee State Library and Archives in Nashville, TN, from Tues., Aug. 2, 2011 through Sun., Aug. 28, 2011. The exhibit will subsequently tour the state, traveling to the Heritage Center of Murfreesboro and Rutherford County, the Arts Center of Cannon County (Woodbury), the McMinn County Living Heritage Museum (Athens), and the Etowah Arts Commission.

...exhibit is up!

Since 2004, the Tennessee Sampler Survey has been documenting 19th century embroidery. Twenty Tennessee samplers were selected for the exhibit, each from a different county. The exhibit presents the samplers on full-sized panels; the actual samplers are not part of this exhibit due to their fragility. Five text panels, explaining the work of the Tennessee Sampler Survey and the regional characteristics of the samplers, are also part of the exhibit.

The Tennessee State Library and Archives is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm Central Time. TSLA is located at 403 7th Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37243. For more information call (615) 741-2764, email reference.tsla@tn.gov, or visit http://www.tn.gov/tsla/.

This exhibit is funded in part by the Tennessee Arts Commission, CBRL Group Foundation, and the LifeWorks Foundation.

Exhibit Schedule

1851 Francis Elizabeth Hulme sampler
Sixth District, Williamson Co. (TSS 214)

The Tennessee Sampler Survey is pleased to announce the opening of a new traveling exhibit, Tennessee Samplers: 19th Century Schoolgirl Embroidery.

The exhibit will tour the state of Tennessee, with visits to all nine developmental districts.

Scheduled stops include:

Start Date	End Date	Location
Aug. 1, 2011	Aug. 28, 2011	TSLA, Nashville
Oct. 1, 2011	Nov. 13, 2011	Heritage Center of Murfreesboro and Rutherford County
Nov. 21, 2011	Dec. 31, 2011	Arts Center of Cannon County, Woodbury
Jan. 16, 2012	Feb. 22, 2012	McMinn County Living Heritage Museum, Athens
Feb. 27, 2012	Apr. 6, 2012	Etowah Arts Commission
Sep. 1, 2012	Oct. 8, 2012	Rose Center, Morristown

Good News!

The TSS has received a grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission to produce a traveling exhibit. These funds, combined with additional monies from CBRL Group and LifeWorks Foundation, will be sufficient for us to do a bang up job. We are working with graphic designer Patricia VornDick to develop the exhibit.

Janet and I are deep into the revisions of the information panels and sampler labels. The exhibit will open Monday, August 1, 2011, at TSLA.

It will then travel to the Heritage Center of Murfreesboro and Rutherford County and the Arts Center of Cannon County (Woodbury).

(Note: This exhibit is life size photographic representations of 20 different samplers, not the actual artifacts.)

We are excited to report that the first nine months are fully booked! More details and a complete schedule to follow.

Interview with Susan Schoelwer

Susan Schoelwer, author of Connecticut Needlework: Women, Art, and Family, 1740-1840, was interviewed by Jon Kay of the Artisan Ancestors website/podcast. You can listen to Dr. Schoelwer discuss how needlework provides a more complete accounting of the values, aesthetics and lives for women in Connecticut in the 18th and 19th centuries in Episode 20.

Schoelwer, Susan P. Connecticut Needlework: Women, Art, and Family, 1740-1840. Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society, 2010.

Exhibit Closing, Sun., Apr. 10, 2011

John Holtzapple, Tom Price, and Janet Hasson

Middle Tennessee Samplers: This My Name Shall Ever Have is closing this Sun., Apr. 10, 2011. If you've been meaning to visit and haven't had a chance yet, this is the last week.

The James K. Polk Home is open Mon. through Sat. 9:00 am to 5:00 pm and Sun. 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. The Polk Home is located at 301 West 7th St., Columbia, TN. Admission to the sampler exhibit is $5.

For more information contact the Polk Home at (931) 388-2354 or jameskpolk@bellsouth.net.

Lecture, Sun., Apr. 3, 2011

Columbia Female Institute
1838-1932
image: TSLA, Nashville

Janet and I will be giving a lecture on Sun., Apr. 3, 2011, 2:00 pm, at the James K. Polk Home in Columbia, TN. Our topic will be "Reading, Writing, and Refining: 19th Century Female Education in Tennessee." The lecture is the last scheduled activity in conjunction with the exhibit Middle Tennessee Samplers: This My Name Shall Ever Have, which closes Sun., Apr. 10, 2011.

Admission to the sampler exhibit is free to lecture attendees.

The James K. Polk Home is located at 301 West 7th Street, Columbia, TN 38402.

For more information or directions call (931) 388-2354 or email jameskpolk@bellsouth.net.