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InarticulateQuilter
InarticulateQuilter
@inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art  ·  activity timestamp 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.
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.
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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