BEREA — The fifth annual “Quilt Extravaganza” kicks off at 10 a.m. Friday with a community quilt show featuring quilts made by local and regional quilters, and a market featuring quilting supplies, quilted items and antiques.
The City of Berea and the Berea Arts Council are co-hosting the two-day event. The community quilt show will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the Berea Community School gymnasium and is open to beginning and experienced quilters.
A $2 admission fee will be charged to view the show, but there is no charge to submit up to three entries, organizers said. No pre-registration is necessary to enter a quilt.
The vendor’s market will be open at the Russel Acton Folk Center on Jefferson Street from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days, and will feature several exhibitors offering quilts, quilting supplies, gifts and antiques, organizers said.
The festival also will include a lecture at 2 p.m. Friday at Berea Community School by author and Berea College professor-in-residence Bell Hooks titled “Witnessing: By Heart and By Hand.”
Hooks will display a collection of family quilts made by her grandmother and discuss “the way quilts bear witness to women’s creativity, especially during difficult times.”
On Saturday, Pat Chesire Jennings will speak at the Berea Baptist Church fellowship hall at a luncheon and lecture titled “Transition from Traditional Quilter to Art Quilter.” The presentation will feature several of Jennings’ quilts. Tickets are $22, and reservations are required. For details, call 985-9317.
The festival also includes a reception Friday beginning at 5:30 p.m. for “Quilts with a Kick,” an exhibit of art quilts at the Berea Arts Council gallery.
The exhibit opened July 10 and closes Aug. 29 at the center, and includes more than 50 quilts.
Saturday’s schedule includes children’s activities from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Madison County Public Library’s Berea branch and officials from the Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society will be on hand at the Intergenerational Center from 10 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. to add pre-1960s quilts to the Kentucky State Quilt Registry.
Brittany Davenport can be reached at news@richmond register.com or at 624-6624.
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At last year’s Quilt Extravaganza in Berea, members of the Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society tried to determine the pattern of a quilt brought in for registration. Pictured, from left, are Melinda Call of Frankfort; Pat Jennings of Berea; Ginnifer Watts of Berea; Carol Ann White of Mount Vernon and Robert Fleming of Frankfort.
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