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Thanks Alissa for bringing this blog post to my attention

By LIZ HAGER Maker Unknown, Pine Trees motif, crib quilt, ca. 1930, Ohio. As we have observed on these pages before (A Different Canvas), the line that separates art and craft can be narrow indeed, the distinction fueled by a contemporary fine art world intent on preserving its top-dog status.  Nowhere would the distinction seem to be more blurry than at the de Young’s current show Amish Abstractions: Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Steph … Read More

via Venetian Red Art Blog

In my view these quilts are just wonderful! And I like the rebuke to contemporary art in the text, especially as I so easily go there myself:  thinking in terms of high and low art, so it is a rebuke to me too. Edward, Alissa, Artdog and Ross,  you have all recently brought my attention to art as ‘art and craft’ and I am grateful.