#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