Shelly Zegart is a recognized expert on American quilts. She collects, curates exhibitions, writes, lectures about, and sells fine quilts. From the affordable to the extraordinary, she can find it for you.
Zegart has curated many exhibits in the U.S. and abroad, and lectures on all aspects of quilt history and aesthetics. She has built private and corporate collections around the world and for more than 20 years she has been a member of the Appraisers Association of America.
Successfully completed a 15-hour course and examination on the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP), the Congressionally-reorganized set of appraisal standards promulgated by The Appraisal Foundation: completed on May 18th, 2010, effective through May 18th, 2015.
An interview at the Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival in 2008. (Japanese & English; courtesy of NHK - Japanese Public Television.)
Do you have a fine quilt that you are thinking about selling? Contact Shelly to discuss how she can help.
Unique Opportunity:Exhibit "Quilts: A Window To The Past": unparalleled, visually appealing, and educational exhibition complete with quilts, objects, photographs and ephemera, is available for purchase.
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For Sale: Gee's Bend Quilt by Ella Pettway-Bendolph
Available for Purchase - "Trip Around the World," Gee's Bend Quilt by Ella Pettway-Bendolph. A very special Gee's Bend quilt that is accompanied by the photos of the maker and other important family documents.
New Acquisitions in 2011 - Quilts for Sale
Fresh to the market -- New Acquisitions 2011! These quilts are from the collection of a well known designer I have known since the early 1980's. I sold them quilts for their farm in upstate NY. She has asked me to sell them for her as she is downsizing.
New Acquisitions in 2010 - Quilts for Sale
As a part of New Acquisitions in 2010, Shelly is pleased to offer these quilts with excellent designs, quilting and colors from a California Collector. There are several small size Amish quilts included as well. These quilts were collected more than 20 years ago and have been well cared for. All are in excellent condition except where noted.
The Zegart Fund for the Alliance for American Quilts is established.
The Alliance for American Quilts recently published a press release about The Zegart Fund for The Alliance for American Quilts.
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Catalogue now available
«Shelly Zegart: Passionate About Quilts» catalogue beautifully documents the retrospective exhibition of her more than thirty years work with quilts held at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in Louisville, Kentucky (Sep 4 – Oct 26, 2008).
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New articles added to Publications Collection
"Old Maid, New Woman": In times of high interest in politics in general and womens' roles and choices in specific, it is more than time for Shelly Zegart's «Old Maid, New Woman» article to be publicly available for the first time since it was originally publsihed in Quilt Digest in 1986. Susan Elizabeth Daggett, for whom the quilt was made to celebrate her 30th birthday, chose to remain single in the 1870's, as did a surprising number of her friends. Their work with the Young ladies Aid society in Canandaigua, NY, and their enduring friendship through the years was a force for women's activism and choices. Read article...
"Myth and Methodology": Just released and available to download - Shelly Zegart's groundbreaking article unpicks African American Quilt Scholarship, published in January 08-Selvedge, an international textile magazine. This article is a benchmark in understanding the problems with myth and methodology in this highly charged arena beginning in the late 1970's. Read article...