Finely crafted quilts and quilt traditions by the Murfreesboro Quilting Bees

Quilting tells stories through pattern, patience, and shared hands. This winter and spring, Todd Art Gallery and the MTSU Department of Art and Design are honored to host and sponsor a trio of events celebrating the work of the Murfreesboro Quilting Bees. From an afternoon fabric weaving workshop and a sampler exhibition in the Glass Gallery, to their annual quilt exhibition at Lane Agri Park, these events highlight quilting as both an art form and a living community tradition.

Calendar of Events

Saturday, January 24 – Saturdays At Todd Workshop: 5-Color Fabric Weaving Workshop, MTSU Todd Art Building, Room 236

Saturday, February 28 – Saturday, March 14 – TAG: Glass Gallery Sampler, MTSU Todd Art Building, Room 224

Saturday, and Sunday, March 20 and 21 – Quilts in the Boro, Lane Agri-Park Community Center, 315 John R Rice Blvd, Murfreesboro, TN 37129

ABC Workshops, community education for lifelong learning across the visual arts

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The first in a series of three Halloween-inspired events we’re calling Artistic Encounters with the Unseen

An Always Be Creative (ABC) workshop series

You are invited to experience history in a new light.

Sourced from The Daily News Journal and The Murfreesboro Union collections at the Rutherford County Archive, this exhibition transforms vintage advertisements into powerful new narratives through painting, fiber arts, mixed media, and video installations.

Artists Frank Baugh, Chrissy Crater, Kelly Herbert, Devin Lamp, Victoria Richardson, and Hannah Weakley recontextualize archival fragments to reveal new meanings, examining everyday imagery and commercial design as mirrors of shifting ideas about identity, community, and cultural values. Each work blends memory, imagination, and aesthetics to breathe new life into the past.

The exhibition also features pieces created in archival arts workshops across schools and libraries, highlighting the power of collective storytelling and creative engagement with local history. Together, these works remind us that archives are not static records of the past but dynamic resources for questioning history, generating new narratives, and envisioning different futures.

Archives aren’t shelves for yesterday; they’re
springboards for tomorrow.

Art in the Archive, Buttons, Kelly Herbert

On the Campus of MTSU

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Quick Reference Slide

Lecture Presentation by Sara Abdoh