A Walk in the Woods
Quilt Artists Respond to Nature
September 9 through December 31, 2025
NEQM Curator, Pamela Weeks, has selected twenty diverse works from eight renowned American quilt artists for this exhibition. A Walk in the Woods is much more than a showcase of its artists’ remarkable interpretations of the natural world. It is a poignant reminder of nature’s extraordinary ability to restore and transform us.
Complementing its theme, exhibitions from artists Salley Mavor and Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord are featured in adjoining galleries.
When I am Among the Trees - by Mary Oliver
When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.
I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”
THIRST: Poems by Mary Oliver - © 2006 by Mary Oliver - Published by Beacon Press, Boston
