About the Show
The Allegany Arts Council and Schoolhouse Quilters Guild, Inc. are pleased to announce a partnership to host the first-ever 2022 Schoolhouse Quilt Show & Competition to take place June 3-5, 2022, at the Allegany County Fairgrounds in Cumberland, Maryland.
About the Schoolhouse Quilters, Inc.
The Schoolhouse Quilters Guild was founded in November 1977 with just 27 charter members. The inaugural meeting took place at an old schoolhouse on Breakneck Hollow Farm in Flintstone, Maryland, a community nestled in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains. Schoolhouse Quilters Guild founder, Jane Patterson, attended school at the one-room schoolhouse which she and her husband later bought to use as her studio.
For nearly 50 years, the Guild has met monthly to share experiences in quiltmaking, collecting and technique, and for more than 30 years, the Guild sponsored the largest quilt show in the tri-state area, attracting quilters from Maryland, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Today, the Schoolhouse Quilters Guild, Inc. includes members of two organizations: the Schoolhouse Quilters Guild and Creative Needles.
About the Allegany Arts Council
The Allegany Arts Council is a non-profit organization which serves as one of 24 county arts agencies across the state of Maryland. The Council operates a year-round professional gallery, develops arts enrichment, education and awareness programs in the community, supports local artists and arts organizations through direct funding, and plays a vital role in revitalization and economic development through the arts. Its diverse array of exhibitions and competitions, programming, and public art work seeks to push the boundaries of artists and the arts.
About the 2022 Schoolhouse Quilt Show & Competition
The 2022 Schoolhouse Quilt Show & Competition is the first time the Allegany Arts Council and Schoolhouse Quilters Guild, Inc. have partnered for the event, seeking to expand the long-running show into a nationally-ranked competition and tourist attraction. Allegany County is proud to honor quilters practicing this traditional art form and hopes to encourage a new generation of artists to learn the practice.
The 2022 competition will take place June 3-5, 2022, at the Allegany County Fairgrounds, and will feature three full days of quilt exhibition, programs and workshops, a quilt boutique, vendors and much more. More than $5000 in prizes will be awarded to traditional and modern quilters in a variety of categories.
