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Zwack's Quilts: Soft Medium, Hard Subject

Annemarie Zwack and two of her quilts, which reflect her opposition to the Iraqi war. The quilts are made of painted sheets of cotton.
Annemarie Zwack and two of her quilts, which reflect her opposition to the Iraqi war. The quilts are made of painted sheets of cotton. (By Rusty Keeler)
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In a different era, they would have been called hippies. Zwack has also made quilts of left-leaning heroes Michael Moore, the filmmaker, and Julia "Butterfly" Hill, the woman who lived in a redwood tree for two years to save it from loggers.

"Of all the people I know, she is probably the truest to her beliefs," Brenda Zwack says of her sister. "She's willing to do what her heart tells her to do rather than what the world is telling her to do."

In October, Zwack brought a trunk show of her quilts to Cafe Saint-Ex on 14th Street NW. Brenda Zwack remembers some people leaving the show when they saw the antiwar content of the quilts. Pamela Pinnock, the events and marketing manager at Busboys, says that she hasn't heard from any offended customers, but that the response to the show has been "mixed."

"People who don't agree with it or feel offended by it haven't been real vocal," Annemarie Zwack says. "But maybe they just haven't seen it yet."

"Where the Wheel Was Born," quilts by Annemarie Zwack, is at Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW, through March 5. Zwack will discuss her work at 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 27. Free. 202-387-7638.

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On Feb. 8 the Washington Project for the Arts\Corcoran will present the Alice Denney Award for Support of Contemporary Arts posthumously to Kevin MacDonald. MacDonald worked in oil, acrylic, watercolor and other media to create spare, realist scenes such as unoccupied restaurant booths and empty railroad stations. He served on the board of the organization and was involved in the Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts. He died of kidney cancer last June at age 59.

His wife, Robin Moore, will accept the award on his behalf. Moore met MacDonald in the early 1990s when she managed the WPA bookstore. The Feb. 8 event is a preview of the WPA\C's annual art auction, which will be held Feb. 10. Advisory board member Robert Lehrman will also receive an award for his service. Both WPA\C art auction events are sold out.

"Kevin was always proud that his pieces, a number of years, got the highest bids at the WPA auction," Moore says. "And we were always the last people dancing."


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