Susquehamma Art Museum

 

Last week I visited the Susquehanna Art Museum in downtown Harrisburg. I was the only customer that morning. The museum has free parking in the back (a rarity in Harrisburg). The first floor has an admission desk, a small museum store, and a few exhibits several of which are displayed in the vault. The museum used to be a bank and they still use the vault. Upstairs was a display to textile art. Jordan Nassar is one of the exhibitors. He does textile art which looks to me like complicated tiny cross stitching. Most of the works are by him along but one giant piece is a combination of his art with textile art that he designed and commissioned from other women artists in Palestine. Beside that is a collection of quilts from the American Folk Art Museum. Some of the quilts are from Pennsylvania. Some name the artist. Some are from the early 1800's and the artist is unknown. Here is a picture of one of my favorite quilts labeled "The Rose."