Every year, students from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Japan’s Saitama University collaborate to create an International Quilt Museum exhibit based on what they have learned together about global quilt traditions. This year, students will focus on traditional Chinese textiles made to celebrate marriages and crafted to care for babies and children. From everyday objects like appliquéd baby carriers to special patchwork quilt covers sewn for a wedding dowry, these textiles represent the wishes of people across China for their families to experience good fortune, prosperity, and longevity. The students will also draw parallels to marriage- and childbirth-related practices they have witnessed in their own families and cultures, demonstrating that these major life cycle events are experiences that humans around the world hold in common.

Beavers Gallery -  Sept. 19 - Nov. 19, 2025