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Mary Lee Bendolph, Blocks and Strips, 2002, wool, cotton, corduroy, National Gallery of Art, Washington
THE GEES BEND QUILTS: these beautiful hand-made examples were included in the exhibition ‘We Will Walk – Art and Resistance in the American South’ at Turner Contemporary. Many were made by descendants of workers on slave plantations in Alabama, who developed these in isolation. @turnercontemporary #wewillwalk #geesbendquilts #geesbend #quilt #americanart #alabama #textileart (at Turner Contemporary) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD3W_RIlIOj/?igshid=opwg8uhq7zar
The old house. #geesbend #alabama #house #childhood #home (at Boykin, Alabama)
"Texas Star" Ella Mae Irby 1973
https://www.soulsgrowndeep.org/artist/ella-mae-irby/work/texas-star
Cotton, corduroy, cotton blend 88 x 85 inches Collection of Brooklyn Museum Gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Souls Grown Deep advocates the inclusion of Black artists from the South in the canon of American art history and fosters economic empowerment, racial and social justice, and educational advancement in the communities that gave rise to these artists. Souls Grown Deep derives its name from a 1921 poem by Langston Hughes (1902-67) titled The Negro Speaks of Rivers, the last line of which is "My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”
Souls Grown Deep Community Partnership pursues racial, social, and economic justice by grant-making, values-aligned investments, underwriting projects, advocacy, and forging collaborations with a variety of like-minded civic organizations, businesses, and nonprofits.
Blocks and strips quilt made from work clothes, 1959, by Lucy Mingo. #quilt #quilting #geesbendquilts #geesbend #lucymingo #geometricart #textiles #1950s #abstractart https://www.instagram.com/p/CW2PGtHMZtK/?utm_medium=tumblr
“Nine Block Quilt,” circa 1930s, by Martha Pettway. #quilting #quilt #geesbendquilts #geesbend #marthapettway #abstractart #geometricart #1930s #cotton #stitching https://www.instagram.com/p/CWCxVdcMEJB/?utm_medium=tumblr
“Housetop and Bricklayer with Bars Quilt,” circa 1955, by Lucy T. Pettway. #quilt #quilting #geesbend #geesbendquilts #abstractart #geometricart #pettway #lucytpettway https://www.instagram.com/p/CV6-r2rslay/?utm_medium=tumblr