{"product_id":"9780804011389","title":"Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eSilver Medalist in ForeWord’s Book of the Year Awards competition, \u003ci\u003eCrafts \u0026amp; Hobbies\u003c\/i\u003e category\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story of the American Quilt Trail, featuring the colorful patterns of quilt squares painted large on barns throughout North America, is the story of one of the fastest-growing grassroots public arts movements in the United States and Canada. In \u003ci\u003eBarn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement\u003c\/i\u003e Suzi Parron takes us to twenty-five states as well as Canada to visit the people and places that have put this movement on America’s tourist and folk art map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough dozens of interviews with barn quilt artists, committee members, and barn owners, Parron documents a journey that began in 2001 with the founder of the movement, Donna Sue Groves. Groves’s desire to honor her mother with a quilt square painted on their barn became a group effort that eventually grew into a county-wide project. Today, quilt squares form a long imaginary clothesline, appearing on more than three thousand barns scattered along one hundred and twenty driving trails.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith more than eighty full-color photographs, Parron documents here a movement that combines rural economic development with an American folk art phenomenon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50078749262064,"sku":"9780804011389","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780804011389_p0.jpg?v=1784734214","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780804011389","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}