Viewer Voices: Blanket Stories

In connection with a featured Marie Watt work now on view in our current Shaping America exhibition — a stack of colorful, memory-filled blankets collected and assembled by artist Marie Watt — our visitors have shared their own “Blanket Stories,” each filled with loving memories and reminders of home and family.[/column32_last]
“My grandmother, Rosina Godino, crocheted blankets. She would put them over me when I took naps. I still have them and they make me feel warm and safe 35 years later. I put them over my stepdaughter when she naps too.” – Anon.
“I had a blanket that I loved so much I tried to take it in the bath.” – Annie D.
[pullquote align=right] …mine was a smooth silk one I couldn