Presented by Lea Lane, “Southern Comforters: Quilts and Coverlets from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts” will share some of MESDA’s textile treasures, including early examples of bed coverings from Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee. Lea C. Lane is Curator of the MESDA Collection & Director of MESDA Summer Institute at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem. She possesses a Master of Arts in American Material Culture from the Winterthur Program at the University of Delaware. She has held positions at Preservation Virginia, the Cincinnati Art Museum, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, and Colonial Williamsburg. Her writings on American material culture and decorative arts can be found in the Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Antiques and Fine Arts, and the Journal of the American Art Pottery Association. She is also a coauthor of Layered Legacies: Quilts from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts at Old Salem.This event is free and open to the public.