Barn Quilts Around Town of Colton
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Barn quilts, and barn quilt trails, have become signature projects in rural areas across the country. While cloth quilts are usually made up of a series of blocks pieced together, barn quilts are typically a single block or square. Most barn quilts are painted on boards and mounted on a barn or other building. Barn quilts, like cloth quilts, often reflect the culture and character of areas where they are located and made for private and/or public enjoyment.
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Barn quilts were created and installed around town through a Colton Town - School collaborative effort: Art Around Town Project. The Town's Tourism & Beautification Committee led the project with Colton - Pierrepont Central School Art Department. The groups quickly exceeded their goal to have at least 30 installed for public viewing, as well for private enjoyment, by the end of 2016.
Please CONTACT US about other barn quilts in town visible from land or water; and let us know if you have a barn quilt up and want a photo added to the website page. (Captions of the pictures shown will continue to be updated as the TOC website is redone.) |
For the 2016 Winterfest Weekend a list and map of thirteen barn quilt locations were handed out as part of the Annual Quilt Show.
The UPDATED LIST and UPDATED MAP, revised twice year, now includes 122 barn quilts as of January 2019. Both the list and map are formatted to print on legal-size paper, hard copies are available by request at the Town Hall and during the summer at the Stone Valley Information Center in the Colton Museum.
The barn quilts connect well with the committee’s focus on heritage tourism, draw attention to the local quilting tradition and quilt events in the community and provide a wonderful opportunity for lots of people to get involved in town tourism & beautification activities. They also link the town to efforts underway by others in St. Lawrence County to put the county on the national barn quilt map.
The first barn quilt done through the project, as described below, was installed in January 2015 on the river side of the Colton Museum before the town's annual Winterfest Weekend. During Winterfest while Thom Hallock of Mountain Lake PBS was in town to cover the Winterfest Quilt Show he learned about the town's barn quilt project and incorporated information about the quilt show and barn quilts into his weekly 30-minute 'Mountain Lake Journal' program -- http://video.mountainlake.org/video/2365414854/ (barn quilt story starts at 9:12).
In January 2016, as part of Wintefest Weekend, a display and demonstration of barn quilts was incorporated into the Annual Quilt Show with the help of the Hammond Barn Quilt Trail Committee. On January 28, leading up to Winterfest, Todd Moe of North Country Public Radio (NCPR) visited Colton for an update on the barn quilt project while new ones were being installed in preparation for the winter festival. Todd's story about barn quilts and Winterfest was part of NCPR's The Eight O'Clock Hour program --
http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/30823/20160128/news-from-the-eight-o-clock-hour-1-28-16 (story starts at 13.28 and ends about 22.20).
Click HERE to learn more about the broader 'Art Around Town' project (under Government / Committees / Tourism & Beautification). And check ANNOUNCEMENTS for more information about basic 'how-to' workshops and painting sessions during the year!
The UPDATED LIST and UPDATED MAP, revised twice year, now includes 122 barn quilts as of January 2019. Both the list and map are formatted to print on legal-size paper, hard copies are available by request at the Town Hall and during the summer at the Stone Valley Information Center in the Colton Museum.
The barn quilts connect well with the committee’s focus on heritage tourism, draw attention to the local quilting tradition and quilt events in the community and provide a wonderful opportunity for lots of people to get involved in town tourism & beautification activities. They also link the town to efforts underway by others in St. Lawrence County to put the county on the national barn quilt map.
The first barn quilt done through the project, as described below, was installed in January 2015 on the river side of the Colton Museum before the town's annual Winterfest Weekend. During Winterfest while Thom Hallock of Mountain Lake PBS was in town to cover the Winterfest Quilt Show he learned about the town's barn quilt project and incorporated information about the quilt show and barn quilts into his weekly 30-minute 'Mountain Lake Journal' program -- http://video.mountainlake.org/video/2365414854/ (barn quilt story starts at 9:12).
In January 2016, as part of Wintefest Weekend, a display and demonstration of barn quilts was incorporated into the Annual Quilt Show with the help of the Hammond Barn Quilt Trail Committee. On January 28, leading up to Winterfest, Todd Moe of North Country Public Radio (NCPR) visited Colton for an update on the barn quilt project while new ones were being installed in preparation for the winter festival. Todd's story about barn quilts and Winterfest was part of NCPR's The Eight O'Clock Hour program --
http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/30823/20160128/news-from-the-eight-o-clock-hour-1-28-16 (story starts at 13.28 and ends about 22.20).
Click HERE to learn more about the broader 'Art Around Town' project (under Government / Committees / Tourism & Beautification). And check ANNOUNCEMENTS for more information about basic 'how-to' workshops and painting sessions during the year!
LINKS TO RELATED EFFORTS & RESOURCES PLUS ANNOUNCEMENTSThe town's Tourism & Beautification Committee periodically holds barn quilt classes and painting sessions. Classes provide participants with an overview as well as hands-on activities, covering SUPPLIES and BASIC STEPS (click words to open sample handouts), over a three-day period.
Classes are now held primarily at Colton-Pierrepont Central School in support of the town-school collaborative 'Art Around Town' project which features barn quilts. In the past, however, classes have been held in Norwood and elsewhere. Slideshows of photos are available HERE for sessions held in Norwood in April 2016 and HERE for South Colton in October 2016.
Other groups and communities in St. Lawrence County and the Adirondack North Country region of New York State also are part of the growing barn quilt movement in the United States. Click HERE to see photos taken from 2014 through March 2016. Additional coverage of the growing barn quilt movement in the town of Colton as well as St. Lawrence County is available under Announcements below.
Links to other community efforts as well as resources are provided below; and updates will be posted as they become available.OTHER COMMUNITY EFFORTSHammond Barn Quilt Trail
Website: https://hammondbarnquilttrail.wordpress.com/
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Hammond.Barn.Quilt.Trail
Facebook announcement...Grand Opening Extravaganza on August 22, 2015:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1636181513288643/
North Country Public Radio story about grand opening:
http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/29170/20150821/st-lawrence-county-s-first-barn-quilt-trail-starts-in-hammond
Canton, NY and Central St. Lawrence Barn Quilt Trail
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Canton-NY-and-Central-St-Lawrence-Barn-Quilt-Trail/1646491825564678
OTHER RESOURCESBarn Quilt Info
Website: http://barnquiltinfo.com/
Hammond Barn Quilt Guidelines (8/2014)
Click to open and print
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Online North Guide (click to open) now includes Adirondack Regional Art Trail profiling barn quilts along with hundreds of artists in the Adirondack North Country. Here is a direct link to the Colton Barn Quilt Trail on the site.
Barn Quilt Documentary -- Sharing a Sense of Place...The New Tradition of Barn Quilting in St. Lawrence County -- was developed by Emily Baker, a student at Clarkson University. She started filming at Colton-Pierrepont Central School prior to the 2015 Winterfest Weekend. Click HERE to watch 30-minute video on YouTube .
Interview with Barn Quilters -- Todd Moe of North Country Public Radio (NCPR) caught up with a number of barn quilt painters during the Barn Quilt Celebration held during the 2018 Colton Country Days. Click HERE to listen to 'Crazy for Barn Quilts in Colton' posted on NCPR's website.
Basic 'How-to' Barn Quilt Classes -- Two three-day classes being presented by the Tourism & Beautification Committee will be held at The TAUNY Center in Canton in June -- June 6-8 and June 20-22 -- as part of a larger county-wide Barn Quilt Tourism Project. The 2-page announcement with details about the class, including how to register, is available HERE.
Mini Barn Quilt Workshop -- Periodically one-day workshops are held to teach the basics of painting barn quilts. The announcement for a workshop during the 2019 Winterfest is available HERE.
More to come!
Classes are now held primarily at Colton-Pierrepont Central School in support of the town-school collaborative 'Art Around Town' project which features barn quilts. In the past, however, classes have been held in Norwood and elsewhere. Slideshows of photos are available HERE for sessions held in Norwood in April 2016 and HERE for South Colton in October 2016.
Other groups and communities in St. Lawrence County and the Adirondack North Country region of New York State also are part of the growing barn quilt movement in the United States. Click HERE to see photos taken from 2014 through March 2016. Additional coverage of the growing barn quilt movement in the town of Colton as well as St. Lawrence County is available under Announcements below.
Links to other community efforts as well as resources are provided below; and updates will be posted as they become available.OTHER COMMUNITY EFFORTSHammond Barn Quilt Trail
Website: https://hammondbarnquilttrail.wordpress.com/
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Hammond.Barn.Quilt.Trail
Facebook announcement...Grand Opening Extravaganza on August 22, 2015:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1636181513288643/
North Country Public Radio story about grand opening:
http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/29170/20150821/st-lawrence-county-s-first-barn-quilt-trail-starts-in-hammond
Canton, NY and Central St. Lawrence Barn Quilt Trail
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Canton-NY-and-Central-St-Lawrence-Barn-Quilt-Trail/1646491825564678
OTHER RESOURCESBarn Quilt Info
Website: http://barnquiltinfo.com/
Hammond Barn Quilt Guidelines (8/2014)
Click to open and print
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Online North Guide (click to open) now includes Adirondack Regional Art Trail profiling barn quilts along with hundreds of artists in the Adirondack North Country. Here is a direct link to the Colton Barn Quilt Trail on the site.
Barn Quilt Documentary -- Sharing a Sense of Place...The New Tradition of Barn Quilting in St. Lawrence County -- was developed by Emily Baker, a student at Clarkson University. She started filming at Colton-Pierrepont Central School prior to the 2015 Winterfest Weekend. Click HERE to watch 30-minute video on YouTube .
Interview with Barn Quilters -- Todd Moe of North Country Public Radio (NCPR) caught up with a number of barn quilt painters during the Barn Quilt Celebration held during the 2018 Colton Country Days. Click HERE to listen to 'Crazy for Barn Quilts in Colton' posted on NCPR's website.
Basic 'How-to' Barn Quilt Classes -- Two three-day classes being presented by the Tourism & Beautification Committee will be held at The TAUNY Center in Canton in June -- June 6-8 and June 20-22 -- as part of a larger county-wide Barn Quilt Tourism Project. The 2-page announcement with details about the class, including how to register, is available HERE.
Mini Barn Quilt Workshop -- Periodically one-day workshops are held to teach the basics of painting barn quilts. The announcement for a workshop during the 2019 Winterfest is available HERE.
More to come!