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The quilters of Gee's Bend

"The women of Gee’s Bend—a small, remote, Black community in Alabama—have created hundreds of quilt masterpieces dating from the early twentieth century to the present. Resembling an inland island, Gee’s Bend is surrounded on three sides by the Alabama River. The some seven hundred or so inhabitants of this small, rural community are mostly descendants of slaves, and for generations they worked the fields belonging to the local Pettway plantation. Enlivened by a visual imagination that extends the expressive boundaries of the quilt genre, these astounding creations constitute a crucial chapter in the history of American art."

Aolar Carson Mosley, n.d. // Loretta Pettway, c.1960 // Marlene Bennett Jones, 2009 // Allie Pettway, n.d. // Loretta Pettway, 2003 // Sally Mae Pettway Mixon, early 2000s // Nancy Pettway, n.d. // Lottie Pettway, 1975

Number 2 while having some kale to chew! 💩 🥬

Designing & Planning Bathrooms, Creative Homeowner’s Press, ‘92  📚

Salvaged & scanned by @jpegfantasy 🖨️