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2. Bettye Kimbrell - Wikipedia

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   Bettye Kimbrell (born November 22, 1936) is a master folk artist for quilting, and one of the charter members of the North Jefferson Quilter's Guild in Mount Olive, Alabama. In 1995 Kimbrell won the Alabama Folk Heritage Award, the highest honor for the traditional arts in Alabama. [1]

3. Mary Lee Bendolph - Wikipedia

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   Mary Lee Bendolph (born 1935) is an American quilt maker of the Gee's Bend Collective from Gee's Bend (Boykin), Alabama.Her work has been influential on subsequent quilters and artists and her quilts have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the country.

4. Loretta Pettway Bennett - Wikipedia

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   Bennett donated this quilt to the Alabama Council of the Arts, where it now hangs on the walls of the Alabama Department of Archives and History. [7] Bennett's work is in the permanent collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem, The Legacy Museum and the Binghamton University Art Museum [1] Her quilts Sew Low and Vegetation are part of the ...

5. Quilts of Gee's Bend - Wikipedia

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   A 1979 quilt by Lucy Mingo of Gee's Bend, Alabama. It includes a nine-patch center block surrounded by pieced strips. The quilts of Gee's Bend are quilts created by a group of women and their ancestors who live or have lived in the isolated African-American hamlet of Gee's Bend, Alabama along the Alabama River.

6. Yvonne Wells - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Freedom Quilting Bee - Wikipedia

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   The Freedom Quilting Bee was a quilting cooperative with members located throughout the Black Belt of Alabama. [1] Black women created the cooperative in 1966 to generate income for their families. In December of 1965 the Episcopal priest Francis X. Walter was in Wilcox county Alabama, when a quilt on a clothesline outside a small home caught ...