The Pocono Arts Council will offer a special exhibit during the month of March.

One Hundred Years on the Courthouse Steps is the result of a challenge posed to the Pocono Mountain Quilters Guild by the Monroe County Bar Association.During 2014, the bar association commissioned a fabric from a painting of the Monroe Courthouse made in 2009 by Kathleen S. Howell. Each quilter received a yard of the fabric, with a challenge to use it in a quilted wall hanging.According to the curator of the exhibit, attorney and quilter, Jane Roach Maughan, "The challenge was to make a quilt inspired by the MCBA's commitment to maintain the honor and dignity of the profession of the law, to cultivate social interaction among its members and to increase its usefulness in promoting the due administration of justice. Quilters were also encouraged to focus on the architecture of the courthouse, themes of justice and law and the events of 1915."Fifteen quilters answered the challenge. The quilts were judged by Phyllis Manley, National Quilters' Association certified judge; Lori J. Cerato, immediate past president MCBA; and Claire Marcus, fourth generation fiber artist and curator of the ARTSPACE Gallery.Winner of the first-place ribbon was Lorraine Hare for her quilt entitled "The 19th Amendment."The show opened with a reception for the quilters at the Monroe County Bar Association headquarters on Main Street in Stroudsburg March 6 and moves to the ARTSPACE Gallery, 18 N. Seventh St., Stroudsburg, for an opening on Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. The show runs through March 27.For more information call the Pocono Arts Council at 570-476-4460 or email

info@poconoarts.org.