Norwalk Quilt Trail Calendar

NORWALK QUILT TRAIL CALENDAR … MAY & JUNE

The Norwalk Quilt Trail spotlights displays of 100 quilts made and collected in Norwalk. The displays during this six-month collaborative project represent themes important to American life and history. Participants in the Norwalk Quilt Trail include the Norwalk and Rowayton Historical Societies (the lead partners), Norwalk Museum, Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, Norwalk Seaport Association’s Sheffield Island Lighthouse, Stepping Stones Museum for Children and Switch Tower Museum.  Additionally, pieces from the National AIDS Memorial Quilt will be shown at City Hall, thanks to the sponsorship of the Triangle Community Center, and local libraries also will offer quilt-related displays and workshops. 

MAY

Norwalk Quilt Trail Opening Weekend

Saturday- Sunday May 14-15

Display Opening:The Craze of Crazy Quilts ($6.00-$10.00)

Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, Mathews Park, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk 06850

Tours: 12 noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m.

Display Opening:Trains, Planes and Automobiles: Interest Starts Early (donation)

SoNo Switch Tower Museum,77 Washington Street, South Norwalk 06854

12:00-5:00 p.m.

Saturday, May 14

Rowayton Historical Society, Pinkney Park, 177 Rowayton Avenue, Rowayton 06853

1:00-4:00 p.m. -- Quilt Airing (free)

1:00-4:00 p.m. – Exhibit Opening: A Common Thread: Family History Told through Quilting (adults $5.00)

5:00-8:00 p.m. -- Reception (free)

Sunday, May 15

Norwalk Historical Society, Mill Hill Historic Park - Town House, 2 East Wall Street, Norwalk, CT  06851

3:00 p.m. -- Lecture: Quilts & Quiltmakers Covering Connecticut -- Sue Reich (adults $5.00)

Sue Reich, a quilt historian, curator and lecturer, has directed the Connecticut Quilt Search Project since 1991. A quiltmaker since childhood, she lectures nationally on many aspects of quilt history, and is a certified American Quilter’s Society quilt appraiser. Reich is co-author or Quilts and Quiltmakers Covering Connecticut, which showcases more than145 pre-1950 quilts accompanied by the histories of the quiltmakers. Reich also is the author of Quilting News of Yesteryear: One Thousand Pieces and Counting and Quilting News of Yesteryear: Crazy as a Bed-Quilt.

5:00-7:00 p.m. -- Reception and Exhibit Opening: Collected & Cherished: Quilts made and collected in Norwalk (free)

JUNE

June 2-17

22 Haviland Street Gallery, South Norwalk 06854

Show and Sale: Quilt Art from Peace By Piece (free)

Quilted pillows and other quilt art by Peace by Piece: The Norwalk Community Quilt Project, an intergenerational program, which is supported by the Norwalk Children’s Foundation. 

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday-Friday: 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday: 1:00-5:00 p.m.

Sunday, June 5

22 Haviland Street Gallery, South Norwalk 06854

3:00 p.m. -- Gallery Talk: Creating the Stepping Stones Museum’s Growing Together Quilt – Lizzy Rockwell (free)

Lizzy Rockwell, the artistic director for Peace By Piece: The Norwalk Community Quilt Project, is an illustrator and art teacher whose artwork can be seen in picture books, magazines, games and other children's products. Her interest in quilting began as a teenager, when she made quilts with her mother, sister and friends. In 2007, Rockwell approached the Norwalk Children’s Foundation about a community collaboration that would bring together adult quilters and youngsters. With funding from the foundation, Peace By Piece participants have made several full-size quilts, including two that are on permanent display – one at Norwalk Community College and the other at Stepping Stones Museum for Children. Rockwell, who studied art at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, is the illustrator of more than 20 children's books

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Saturday & Sunday, June 4 & 5

Sheffield Island Lighthouse, Norwalk Seaport Association ferry dock, Washington and North Water Streets, South Norwalk 06854

Exhibit Opening:Against the Elements: Keeping Warm at the Lighthouse ($5.00-$22.00)

Norwalk Seaport Association ferry to Sheffield Island departs 11:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m., 3:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 11

Connecticut Open House Day

Free admission to Norwalk Historical Society and Rowayton Historical Society quilt displays.

June 21 … 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.

Rowayton Community Center, 33 Highland Avenue, Rowayton 06853

Goodwives Quilt Show (free)

June 25 … 10:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.

Norwalk Historical Society, Mill Hill Historic Park - Town House, 2 East Wall Street, Norwalk 06851

Color Workshop – Ed Johnetta Miller ($50.00, includes lunch)

Ed Johnetta Miller, a fiber artist, quilter, teacher, curator and lecturer, is acknowledged as one of the most creative and colorful improvisational quiltmakers in the United States. The New York Times featured her in the “Best of the Best” series and, most recently, she appeared on HGTV's “Simply Quilts.” Widely exhibited nationally and internationally, Miller’s quilts are in corporate, private and museum collections, including The National Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Nelson Mandela's National Museum, Cape Town, South Africa; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; and Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, CO. Miller has received numerous honors including Connecticut's most prestigious artistic accolade, the Governor's Art Award.

June 30 … 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Stepping Stones Museum for Children, 303 West Avenue, Norwalk 06850

Display Opening:Quilts Made by Norwalk Children from the 1970s to Today ($10-$12)

The Norwalk Quilt Trail continues through November 16. Information will be provided about additional special events.