GroundBreaking $2.2 Million Collection Given to Quilt Center.

(From AScribe)

LINCOLN, Neb. -- In 1971, Jonathan Holstein and the Whitney Museum of American Art turned heads with an exhibition of something new that ignited a renaissance. "Abstract Design in American Quilts" is considered the exhibition that elevated quilts to the same level as "high" art by exhibiting 60 quilts in the prestigious art museum and by comparing their graphic qualities to those found in modern abstract art.

It's fitting, then, that this ground-breaking Whitney exhibition collection, together with more than 150 Lancaster County, Penn., quilts and about 200 other Midwestern Amish quilts have found a new home at the International Quilt Study Center at the University …