Zegart owns a personal collection of nineteenth- and twentieth- century quilts.
Zegart's first international project was an exhibit in 1987 of Kentucky quilts for the Women's Committee of the National Trust of Australia in Sydney.
[2] Shelly Zegart is one of the founding directors of The Kentucky Quilt Project, the first statewide quilt documentation project in the United States.
Most recently, she was Executive Producer and Host of the documentary series Why Quilts Matter, History, Art & Politics.
The series aired on public broadcasting television stations across the United States.