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Gwendolyn (Gwen) Ann Magee (August 31, 1943 – April 27, 2011) was an African-American fiber artist.Learning to quilt in the middle of her life, Magee quickly became known in the world of fiber art for her abstract and narrative quilts depicting the African-American experience.
In her quilt history research, Hicks found only the second known photograph to exist of Harriet Powers, an African-American slave, folk artist and quilt maker from rural Georgia. Powers used traditional appliqué techniques to record local legends, Bible stories, and astronomical events on her quilts.
Black Threads: An African American Quilting Sourcebook by Kyra E. Hicks, McFarland & Company, (2002) pages 25, 59, 62 A Communion of the Spirits: African-American Quilters, Preservers, and Their Stories by Roland L. Freeman , Thomas Nelson (1996)Pages 59–60, 123, 166, 167-71, 198-99, 311
The quilts of Gee's Bend are among the most important African-American visual and cultural contributions to the history of art within the United States. [1] The women of Gee's Bend have gained international attention and acclaim for their artistry, with exhibitions of Gee's Bend quilts held in museums and galleries across the United States and ...
Soon after, Ringgold produced a series of 12 quilt paintings titled “The French Collection,” again weaving narrative, biographical and African American cultural references and Western art.
Butler's quilts are featured in art books such as Journey of Hope: Quilts Inspired by President Barack Obama (2010) [42] and Collaborations: Two Decades of African American Art : Hearne Fine Art 1988-2008 (2008), [43] and on websites such as Blavity [14] and Colossal. [28] In 2019, she was a finalist for the Museum of Art and Design's Burke ...
Rosie Lee Tompkins (1936–2006) is the art pseudonym of Effie Mae Martin Howard, a widely acclaimed African-American quiltmaker and fiber artist of Richmond, California. The New York Times called her "one of the great American artists," and her work "one of the century’s major artistic accomplishments."
Yvonne Wells (born December 26, 1939, Tuscaloosa, Alabama) [1] is an African-American folk artist and quilter from Tuscaloosa, Alabama.She is best known for her self-taught style and her story quilts depicting scenes from the Bible and the Civil Rights Movement.