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November 2024
Antique Southern Quilts Collection Showcase
A special quilting exhibit, “Threads of Our History: Quilts of Mathews Virginia,” will debut at the Mathews Museum, October 5 and will be on exhibit through the end of December. These quilts are from a private collection of an old Mathews family, going back over a century. Mathews is a small, rural southern county sitting on the Chesapeake Bay. The quilts reflect their utilitarian use, in a geographic area that was fairly isolated until the 1950s. The quilts honor a southern tradition of quilting when…
Find out more »Bay School Holiday Pop-Up Market
Join the Bay School from November 13th - December 31st for their Holiday Pop-Up Market! Vendors booths will be set up inside the Bay School with some of the most popular artisans, and regularly freshened up with new inventory throughout the season!
Find out more »Made in Mathews Open Studio Tour
The Made In Mathews Open Studio Tour offers the opportunity to visit and interact with an accomplished and varied group of working artists and artisans, each practicing thier chosen craft amongst the beautiful rivers and bays of historic Mathews County, Virginia. Our member artists and artisans benefit from a remarkably diverse range of skills, mediums, backgrounds that are as unique as the people who call Mathews County their home. Collectively they produce a staggering array of fine art, textiles, traditional…
Find out more »December 2024
Empty Bowls
Purchase a beautiful hand-made pottery bowl from Bay School artists, and have your choice of delicious soups, bread and cookies- all for just $20! All of the proceeds go to Hands Across Mathews.
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