…well-used clothing, and recycled into an object used as a mattress and blanket. The parallels to the Alabama women quilters from Gees Bend, descendents of slaves, who are now-celebrated for…
Read MoreNews Roberta’s shot of the Gee’s Bend Quilters from 2008, now proudly included in a Craft in America episode. A shot Roberta took of the Gee’s Bend Girls at…
Read More…at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) that coincided with three exhibitions of work beyond the mainstream cannon: quilts from Gee’s Bend, a retrospective of cardboard constructions, books and drawings…
Read More…and a community that is visible across a wide river, Gee’s Bend. The small community of Gee’s Bend bears the name of a former plantation, and is populated by sharecropper…
Read MoreSelf-taught artists take over prime real estate at the Philadelphia Museum of Art this month. The Gee’s Bend quilters and the mute artist James Castle broke all kinds of art…
Read MoreRuth Kennedy Blocks and Stripes (2003) corduroy, 86 x 75in, the Tinwood Alliance The Evolution of Quilting and/in Museums Gee’s Bend is a small and isolated African American community in…
Read More…one of a number of quilts in these colors that utilized leftover fabric from needlework the women in the town did for Sears Roebuck. Gees Bend Quilters Ten Gees Bend…
Read More…never eat at a food truck again!] (image right is quilt from Gees Bend) Q. What did you do after graduation? A. I had to find a job that was…
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