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InarticulateQuilter

@inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · 3 days ago

InarticulateQuilter

@inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · 3 days ago

#CelebratingBlackQuilters
#BlackHistoryMonth

Wini “Akissi” McQueen (1943-) still has bits of the quilt she made at six with scraps her grandfather brought home from his work at a cotton mill. The Howard alum, who found a home in Georgia, used hand dyeing/image transfers in her early quilts though her recent work has explored more conceptual ideas

Representative work:
Ode to Edmund
Cotton/Photo transfer
40” x 61”
1992

More info:
https://historicmacon.org/wwwhistoricmaconorg/blog/2022/11/3/thats-how-we-survived

Photo credit: High Museum

RE: https://mastodon.art/@inarticulatequilter/116013126825237803

Before #CelebratingBlackQuilters, I did not know that column quilts are a traditionally African design. It's made me re-evaluate a lot of quilts I've come across, seeing influences that I wouldn't have before

I've actually learned a lot about the African-American influence on contemporary quilting - later this month, I'll be spotlighting a woman who almost singlehandedly introduced 3 separate modern quilting techniques!

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InarticulateQuilter

@inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · 6 days ago

InarticulateQuilter

@inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · 6 days ago

#CelebratingBlackQuilters
#BlackHistoryMonth

Viola Burley Leak (1944-) earned four separate art degrees on her path to world-renowned painter, printmaker and quilter. A one-time toy designer, her #quilting work is known for combining African-American heritage with mystical elements, often with lots of movement to the designs

Representative work:
Katrina Wreckage and Tears…And Still We Rise
Cotton/Lame/Paint
77½ x 72½”
2012

More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Burley_Leak

Photo credit: CE & Mary Martin

RE: https://mastodon.art/@inarticulatequilter/115996166561993824

Going to be posting from a new group of famous (and deserve to be more famous) African-American quilters each day during #BlackHistoryMonth - be sure to follow #CelebratingBlackQuilters to see samples of their work and learn more about each of them

I'll also be boosting last year's daily quilter too - 2X the quilty goodness every day this February!

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InarticulateQuilter

@inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · 6 days ago

#CelebratingBlackQuilters
#BlackHistoryMonth

Viola Burley Leak (1944-) earned four separate art degrees on her path to world-renowned painter, printmaker and quilter. A one-time toy designer, her #quilting work is known for combining African-American heritage with mystical elements, often with lots of movement to the designs

Representative work:
Katrina Wreckage and Tears…And Still We Rise
Cotton/Lame/Paint
77½ x 72½”
2012

More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Burley_Leak

Photo credit: CE & Mary Martin

Hurricane Katrina-themed quilt featuring piecework, paint and appliqué. Houses, trees and bodies combine in a whirl of darkly colorful images. A silhouetted tree in the center of the piece morphs into two bodies. Several painted faces appear in windows and doors, many crying. Near the bottom of the quilt gray and black lines mimic dirty water with black silhouettes of bodies half submerged beneath a muddy brown and green strip of fabric. Towards the right, the bodies are depicted as standing on top of each other, until the top person holds a small umbrella out over the chaos below.

Viola Burley Leak - Wikipedia

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InarticulateQuilter

@inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · 5 days ago

#CelebratingBlackQuilters
#BlackHistoryMonth

Celeste Butler (??-) is an Omaha, Nebraska-based artist who communicates through salvaging/deconstructing fabrics and other material. Seeking to create teachable moments with her work, she has been quoted as saying that quilting is more than art, it’s a lifestyle that touches everything

Representative work:
Ancestors
Cotton/Denim/Wood
Unknown
2020

More info:
https://celestebutlerart.com/
https://boldjourney.com/meet-celeste-butler/

Photo credit: Artist

A wood panel with a laser cut image of the hold of a slave ship is sewn to a red and black human silhouette set against a background of gold and red African fabric. This arched installation is then backed by a quilt of distressed denim that spills out into a mass of fabric on the floor. The gathered fabric, on which small Xs have been scattered, is reminiscent of the ocean waves where countless unnamed enslaved people drowned while being transported from Africa

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InarticulateQuilter

@inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · 4 days ago

#CelebratingBlackQuilters
#BlackHistoryMonth

Jo-Ann Morgan (??-…) began making quilts in 2020 as a way of processing both the pandemic and the murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. Since then, the former art history professor has developed a unique appliqué style she uses to memorialize dozens of victims of police killings, gun violence and war

Representative work:
Elegy for Elijah
Cotton/Lace/Fur
50” x 41”
2021

More info:
https://www.picturingblackpower.com/

Photo credit: 803 Labs

Multi-media appliqué quilt of a black woman playing a violin. The woman is Nuestra Dama de la Corona (Lady Corona) a character the artist developed and employs in many of her pieces. Lady Corona is dressed in flower-decorated lace, wearing a mask and crown, playing for two appliquéd white cats, like Elijah McClain would before he was murdered by Aurora, CO police. Against the quilt’s background of golden aspen trees, purple butterflies flutter.

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InarticulateQuilter

@inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · 3 days ago

#CelebratingBlackQuilters
#BlackHistoryMonth

Wini “Akissi” McQueen (1943-) still has bits of the quilt she made at six with scraps her grandfather brought home from his work at a cotton mill. The Howard alum, who found a home in Georgia, used hand dyeing/image transfers in her early quilts though her recent work has explored more conceptual ideas

Representative work:
Ode to Edmund
Cotton/Photo transfer
40” x 61”
1992

More info:
https://historicmacon.org/wwwhistoricmaconorg/blog/2022/11/3/thats-how-we-survived

Photo credit: High Museum

Untraditional African-American column quilt from the artist’s Urban Kente period. The red, white and blue quilt honors an enslaved man, Edmund G. Carlisle, who taught himself to read and write and who was brutally punished for it. Blocks in the quilt include blue processed photos, hand dyed fabrics, symbols and text. Many of the photos are of 1850 daguerreotypes of enslaved people from a South Carolina plantation and the text includes stories from formerly enslaved people recounting their lives

Historic Macon Foundation

‘THAT’S HOW WE SURVIVED’ — Historic Macon Foundation

For Wini McQueen, it’s all about the story. And she’s got plenty of them to tell. Forging a working life as a fabric artist — “I really call myself a fine artist” — seems meant to be. But she does far, far more than just sew fabric squares together. In all her work, she’s stitching together storie

InarticulateQuilter

@inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · 3 days ago

InarticulateQuilter

@inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · 3 days ago

#CelebratingBlackQuilters
#BlackHistoryMonth

Wini “Akissi” McQueen (1943-) still has bits of the quilt she made at six with scraps her grandfather brought home from his work at a cotton mill. The Howard alum, who found a home in Georgia, used hand dyeing/image transfers in her early quilts though her recent work has explored more conceptual ideas

Representative work:
Ode to Edmund
Cotton/Photo transfer
40” x 61”
1992

More info:
https://historicmacon.org/wwwhistoricmaconorg/blog/2022/11/3/thats-how-we-survived

Photo credit: High Museum

RE: https://mastodon.art/@inarticulatequilter/116013126825237803

Before #CelebratingBlackQuilters, I did not know that column quilts are a traditionally African design. It's made me re-evaluate a lot of quilts I've come across, seeing influences that I wouldn't have before

I've actually learned a lot about the African-American influence on contemporary quilting - later this month, I'll be spotlighting a woman who almost singlehandedly introduced 3 separate modern quilting techniques!

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InarticulateQuilter

@inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · last year

#CelebratingBlackQuilters
#BlackHistoryMonth

Harriet Powers (1837-1910) learned to sew while enslaved in Georgia. After the Civil War, she and her spouse owned a farm, but financial difficulties forced her to sell the quilt shown (for $5!) She is known to have made many quilts with religious and astronomical themes, though only two of her works have survived.

Representative work:
The Bible Quilt
Appliqué
88”x74”
1886

More info:
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_556462

Photo credit: Smithsonian

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Story quilt with 11 picture panels in 3 rows, including Adam and Eve in Eden, Eve and her son, Satan amidst the seven stars, Cain killing Abel, Cain goes into the land of Nod to get a wife, Jacob's dream, the baptism of Christ, the crucifixion, Judas Iscariot and the thirty pieces of silver, the Last Supper, and the Holy Family. The appliquéd figures are folk art style in muted shades of blue-grey, black, red, cheddar orange and tan on a beige background. Tan sashing and cheddar cornerstones connect each panel.

National Museum of American History

1885 - 1886 Harriet Powers's Bible Quilt

Harriet Powers, an African American farm woman of Clarke County, Georgia, made this quilt in about 1886. She exhibited it at the Athens Cotton Fair of…

InarticulateQuilter

@inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · 3 days ago

#CelebratingBlackQuilters
#BlackHistoryMonth

Wini “Akissi” McQueen (1943-) still has bits of the quilt she made at six with scraps her grandfather brought home from his work at a cotton mill. The Howard alum, who found a home in Georgia, used hand dyeing/image transfers in her early quilts though her recent work has explored more conceptual ideas

Representative work:
Ode to Edmund
Cotton/Photo transfer
40” x 61”
1992

More info:
https://historicmacon.org/wwwhistoricmaconorg/blog/2022/11/3/thats-how-we-survived

Photo credit: High Museum

Untraditional African-American column quilt from the artist’s Urban Kente period. The red, white and blue quilt honors an enslaved man, Edmund G. Carlisle, who taught himself to read and write and who was brutally punished for it. Blocks in the quilt include blue processed photos, hand dyed fabrics, symbols and text. Many of the photos are of 1850 daguerreotypes of enslaved people from a South Carolina plantation and the text includes stories from formerly enslaved people recounting their lives

Historic Macon Foundation

‘THAT’S HOW WE SURVIVED’ — Historic Macon Foundation

For Wini McQueen, it’s all about the story. And she’s got plenty of them to tell. Forging a working life as a fabric artist — “I really call myself a fine artist” — seems meant to be. But she does far, far more than just sew fabric squares together. In all her work, she’s stitching together storie

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InarticulateQuilter

@inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · last year

#CelebratingBlackQuilters
#BlackHistoryMonth

Rosie Lee Tompkins (1936-2006) learned quilting as a child but didn’t pursue the craft seriously until later in life. 500+ works from her 2½ decade quiltmaking career are in the permanent collection of the Berkeley Art Museum. Born Effie Mae Martin, Tompkins was a pseudonym used to protect her privacy.

Representative work:
Untitled
Cotton, wool, polyester
104” x 145”
c. 2002

More info:
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/rosie-lee-tompkins-0

Photo credit: Ben Blackwell

A riotous mix of off-kilter quilt blocks in a variety of sizes and fabrics. The color red is prominent but yellow, green, black and white also stand out among the multitude of colors. Traditional block patterns like log cabins, half square triangles, rail fence blocks and nine patches are recognizable, but also not? There’s so much energy to the quilt it’s almost overwhelming.

InarticulateQuilter

@inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · 4 days ago

#CelebratingBlackQuilters
#BlackHistoryMonth

Jo-Ann Morgan (??-…) began making quilts in 2020 as a way of processing both the pandemic and the murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. Since then, the former art history professor has developed a unique appliqué style she uses to memorialize dozens of victims of police killings, gun violence and war

Representative work:
Elegy for Elijah
Cotton/Lace/Fur
50” x 41”
2021

More info:
https://www.picturingblackpower.com/

Photo credit: 803 Labs

Multi-media appliqué quilt of a black woman playing a violin. The woman is Nuestra Dama de la Corona (Lady Corona) a character the artist developed and employs in many of her pieces. Lady Corona is dressed in flower-decorated lace, wearing a mask and crown, playing for two appliquéd white cats, like Elijah McClain would before he was murdered by Aurora, CO police. Against the quilt’s background of golden aspen trees, purple butterflies flutter.

InarticulateQuilter

@inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · 5 days ago

#CelebratingBlackQuilters
#BlackHistoryMonth

Celeste Butler (??-) is an Omaha, Nebraska-based artist who communicates through salvaging/deconstructing fabrics and other material. Seeking to create teachable moments with her work, she has been quoted as saying that quilting is more than art, it’s a lifestyle that touches everything

Representative work:
Ancestors
Cotton/Denim/Wood
Unknown
2020

More info:
https://celestebutlerart.com/
https://boldjourney.com/meet-celeste-butler/

Photo credit: Artist

A wood panel with a laser cut image of the hold of a slave ship is sewn to a red and black human silhouette set against a background of gold and red African fabric. This arched installation is then backed by a quilt of distressed denim that spills out into a mass of fabric on the floor. The gathered fabric, on which small Xs have been scattered, is reminiscent of the ocean waves where countless unnamed enslaved people drowned while being transported from Africa

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InarticulateQuilter

@inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · last year

#CelebratingBlackQuilters
#BlackHistoryMonth

Elizabeth Keckley (1818-1907)
was an enslaved seamstress who purchased her own freedom. She became a dressmaker for the wives of Washington DC politicians, including Mary Todd Lincoln. This surviving quilt is believed to have used fabric scraps from Lincoln’s dresses

Representative work:
The Mary Todd Lincoln Quilt
Silk appliqué
86” x 81”
c. 1860-1880

More info:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Keckley

Photo credit: WhiteHouseHistory.org

Medallion appliqué quilt in vintage beige, blue and red silks with some velvet. Center is an appliquéd eagle with olive branches, American flag and the embroidered word Liberty surrounded by additional rows of embroidered motifs. A wide border of what looks like paper pieced hexagons arranged to look like flowers surrounds the center section and the outermost border has additional print and embroidered motifs. The quilt is bound with red fringe.

Elizabeth Keckley - Wikipedia

InarticulateQuilter

@inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · 6 days ago

InarticulateQuilter

@inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · 6 days ago

#CelebratingBlackQuilters
#BlackHistoryMonth

Viola Burley Leak (1944-) earned four separate art degrees on her path to world-renowned painter, printmaker and quilter. A one-time toy designer, her #quilting work is known for combining African-American heritage with mystical elements, often with lots of movement to the designs

Representative work:
Katrina Wreckage and Tears…And Still We Rise
Cotton/Lame/Paint
77½ x 72½”
2012

More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Burley_Leak

Photo credit: CE & Mary Martin

RE: https://mastodon.art/@inarticulatequilter/115996166561993824

Going to be posting from a new group of famous (and deserve to be more famous) African-American quilters each day during #BlackHistoryMonth - be sure to follow #CelebratingBlackQuilters to see samples of their work and learn more about each of them

I'll also be boosting last year's daily quilter too - 2X the quilty goodness every day this February!

InarticulateQuilter

@inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · 6 days ago

#CelebratingBlackQuilters
#BlackHistoryMonth

Viola Burley Leak (1944-) earned four separate art degrees on her path to world-renowned painter, printmaker and quilter. A one-time toy designer, her #quilting work is known for combining African-American heritage with mystical elements, often with lots of movement to the designs

Representative work:
Katrina Wreckage and Tears…And Still We Rise
Cotton/Lame/Paint
77½ x 72½”
2012

More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Burley_Leak

Photo credit: CE & Mary Martin

Hurricane Katrina-themed quilt featuring piecework, paint and appliqué. Houses, trees and bodies combine in a whirl of darkly colorful images. A silhouetted tree in the center of the piece morphs into two bodies. Several painted faces appear in windows and doors, many crying. Near the bottom of the quilt gray and black lines mimic dirty water with black silhouettes of bodies half submerged beneath a muddy brown and green strip of fabric. Towards the right, the bodies are depicted as standing on top of each other, until the top person holds a small umbrella out over the chaos below.

Viola Burley Leak - Wikipedia

InarticulateQuilter

@inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · 6 days ago

#CelebratingBlackQuilters
#BlackHistoryMonth

Viola Burley Leak (1944-) earned four separate art degrees on her path to world-renowned painter, printmaker and quilter. A one-time toy designer, her #quilting work is known for combining African-American heritage with mystical elements, often with lots of movement to the designs

Representative work:
Katrina Wreckage and Tears…And Still We Rise
Cotton/Lame/Paint
77½ x 72½”
2012

More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Burley_Leak

Photo credit: CE & Mary Martin

Hurricane Katrina-themed quilt featuring piecework, paint and appliqué. Houses, trees and bodies combine in a whirl of darkly colorful images. A silhouetted tree in the center of the piece morphs into two bodies. Several painted faces appear in windows and doors, many crying. Near the bottom of the quilt gray and black lines mimic dirty water with black silhouettes of bodies half submerged beneath a muddy brown and green strip of fabric. Towards the right, the bodies are depicted as standing on top of each other, until the top person holds a small umbrella out over the chaos below.

Viola Burley Leak - Wikipedia

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