The Gregg Museum of Arts & Design at North Carolina State University provides resources for the study of art, craft, design, creativity, history, and social or personal expression. Six to eight exhibitions will be presented in the course of a year, all of which are free and open to the public.

A crazy question rises to many people’s mind has been, “Why nick a pulchritudinous fabric and spend a lot of time and energy in sewing it all back together again?” Well, the designers end up in producing QUILT, which grabs the eye and portrays the creative instincts of the designer as well. Art is something that can be made only by a few creative individuals and of course, that can be seen, felt and enjoyed by a few art lovers.

Just as the curator Kathlyn Sullivan adduced, “quilts were the art and the color in humble, dark cabins. Quilts were labors of love for the warmth and security of loved ones. Quilts were the vehicles for the ambition to be recognized and quilts provide a means for wordless expression. The choice of fabric colors and a design was an escape from the usual daily domestic drudgery”.

Curator Kathlyn Sullivan and textile consultant Janine LeBlanc have organized for a graphic quilts exhibition and it is designed to show how women from all walks of life chose to design their quilts, their home made art. This exhibition includes quilts with patriotic themes, exquisite silk and crazy quilts, finely designed and made antique North Carolina quilts and two enthralling Sas Colby art quilts and it goes on till October 4th of this year. The time period for this exhibition is from 1840-1980. Since 1840 is when quilt making grew to become part of yeoman farm life and the late 1970s is the time of the nationwide quilt revival.

Also, there is one more ongoing exhibition on Textile design. Textile design is a specialized field that involves several sectors – fashion, interior decoration, the production of expressive works, sculptures and handcrafted items. This traveling exhibition, subsumes Coptic and Pre-Columbian, European, Asian, Middle Eastern and American flat functional textiles. The James Collection of American Quilts, the Gelinas Apparel Collection, and major gifts from individuals as well as institutions form the basis for a true history of world textiles. Curetted by the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design in Hendersonville, NC, this exhibition features designs that represent five 21st century design growth areas of creative/innovative textiles using computerized Jacquard looms.

NCSU- Come on Gear up! An exhibition is going to be conducted from Oct. 22 to Dec. 19 wherein faculty, staff, students & alumni of N.C. State can trot out their innovative works on paper and painting, ceramics and installation art.

“A medley of stupendous works on pottery, textile design and quilts in this museum props up the art lovers,” said Lynn Jones Ennis, Interim Director of Gregg Museum of Art & Design.

Gregg exhibitions educate and inspire by making objects of art and craft available for personal enjoyment, inspiration, study as well as research. The Gregg not only works directly with the University faculty to arrange access to the collection for study and research, but it also offers student internships for class credit.

To conclude, the Gregg Museum of Arts & Design paves the way for art lovers to appreciate world-class work in the media of textiles, ceramics, photography, wood, glass and metals. Michelle, a student at NC State said, “I am absolutely dumbfounded by seeing this. I love quilts so much and I relish every part of this exhibition.”