In honor of Mother’s Day, we highlight a recent blog post by one of our volunteer curatorial assistants who was inspired by the expert craftsmanship of quilter Annie G. Dunton (1833-1893) to create a quilted wall-hanging. Not only was Dunton very talented at needlework and an early pupil of the Philadelphia School of Art Embroidery, she was also mother to Dr. William Rush Dunton Jr. who is widely credited for his pioneering work in the field of occupational therapy. At a young age, William Dunton acquired an appreciation for textile arts from his mother. Later in his career, he came to believe that quilting’s repetitiveness, as well as its capacity for self-expression and collaboration, would benefit the patients he treated at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital for depression and anxiety in the 1940s. Read the tribute to William Dunton's mother by clicking on the "Blogs" tab in our bio link. You can learn more about William Dunton's groundbreaking work in the exhibition currently ...