Old Church Gallery Timeline: 2020s
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2020
Participates in Citizens Telephone Cooperative’s “Community Show,” cable production with a video tour of the “Sweet & Sassy” feed sack exhibit.
Melinda Wagner and Kathleen Ingoldsby present a program and films at Radford University’s McConnell Library as part of a series commemorating the end of WWII. Their presentation was based on research gleaned from interviews from our “From the Front Porch to the Front Lines” WWII DVD set.
Continues building a new website, digitizing oral history interviews, and inventorying permanent collections while public visitation time is postponed due to the Pandemic.
2021
Shares first virtual Facebook exhibit, “Quilt-a -Day,” during March for National Quilt Month – showcasing thirty-one local quilts and the stories they hold.
Continues building a new website using collections data and records, based on the Gallery’s archival materials.
Undertakes the quiet and important work of airing, measuring, photographing, and storing the coverlet/blanket collection.
2022
Launches a brand-new website–the one you’re looking at right now–which combined the formerly separate websites of the Old Church Gallery and Floyd Story Center, and also added a new component: a growing database of cultural objects and oral history interviews in our collections, including numerous images and detailed background information on each item.
1970s-1980s — 1990s — 2000s — 2010s — 2020s