Jerry Blackburn’s “American Heat” quilts are bright and beautiful-but they won’t keep you warm. They’re made of metal. Blackburn, a Chicago sculptor, uses pieces of aluminum cans and plain metal ...

With just three colors – orange, red and green – and a geometric design, the “Ocean Waves” and the “Carpenter’s Wheel” quilts seemed to pop from the museum walls. It was a “wow” moment for the first ...

Phyllis DeWys wasn’t expecting to get as inspired as she did while accompanying her husband on a pheasant hunt. “I go out in the field,” she said. “I don’t carry a gun. I don’t find any pleasure in it ...

Allen and Patty Brown are crazy about crazy quilts. The Colorado Springs couple read about them, attend classes on them, display them in their home and in museum shows, and occasionally travel ...

Some are as elaborate as an intricate, hand-stitched Double Wedding Ring and others are as simple as a machine-assembled Log Cabin. But all 185 works in “Quilts: An American Heritage,” the current ...