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Mrs. Zegart works with designers and decorators, painstakingly matching a color or graphic design. Shelly is as concerned about pleasing an individual who can spend $350 for a gift as she is in satisfying corporate clients who want to purchase investment quilts for their offices.

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Shelly Zegart continues to demolish the divisions that inhibit the reception of the quilt as art -- both in the mind of makers and viewers. Although she will be among the first to acknowledge that her task is far from complete, she surely knows her labors have made a difference for the greater good.

Bernard L. Herman, George B. Tindle Professor of American Studies, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

 

Shelly Zegart is a consultant and contributor to the book and museum exhibition, The Quilts of Gee's Bend. She has acted as an advisor for the organization and operations of the Gee's Bend Quilters Collective, working closely with the quiltmakers in the marketing of the Collective Quilts.

Quilts of Gee's Bend

 

About Shelly :: Author

Shelly is an author of several books and articles. She has also contributed to a number of reviews and introductions.

 

Books

Please review some of the books that helly has written or contributed to:

SHELLY ZEGART: Passionate about Quilts
American Quilt Collections: Antique Quilt Masterpieces
Always There: The African-American Presence in American Quilts
ABSTRACT DESIGN IN AMERICAN QUILT: A Biography of an Exhibition
EXPANDING QUILT SCHOLARSHIP: The Lectures, Conferences, and Other Presentations of Louisville Celebrates the American Quilt
KENTUCKY QUILTS: 1800-1900
 
 

Articles

Below are some of the articles that Shelly has written and published:

The Quilt Projects: Fifteen Years Later
Messages and Memories: Antique Quilts from the Shelly Zegart Collection
Appraising Your Quilts, Part I
Appraising Your Quilts, Part II
Quilts as Women's Art
 
Kentucky Quilts: Roots and Wings
Affairs of State: Documenting the Past for Future
Antique Quilts in the Twenty First Century - Collections and Exhibitions: An Insider's View
Buying Old Quilts: A Guide for Quilt Collectors
Old Maid, New Woman
Myth and Methodology