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NedRa Bonds (born 1948) is an American quilter, activist, and retired teacher, born and raised in the historic Quindaro neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas.Bonds creates quilts and mixed media fiber dolls using fabric, beads, and symbolism to explore issues dealing with human rights, race, women, politics, and the environment.
Mariann Edgar was born in 1959 in Summit, New Jersey, [1] to a Swedish-American mother, Ann Björkman (1931–2024), and an American father, William Edgar. [2] [3] She grew up in the Flanders section of Mount Olive Township, New Jersey, attending West Morris Mount Olive High School, and also in Colorado, following her parents' divorce.
Wanting to make quilts for her daughters to take to college, Magee enrolled in a quilting class in 1989. [3] After completing classes at Joy's Craft Shop in Jackson and Anne's Quilt Shop in Clinton, Magee learned about the Jackson Quilters and the Mississippi Quilt Association, where she was the only African American member of the groups at that time. [5]
In 1977, Hopkins opened a quilt shop in Santa Monica called Crazy Ladies and Friends. Hopkins' short book, The Double Wedding Ring Book, was released in 1981 and her first full-length book, The It's Okay If You Sit on My Quilt Book, in 1982. She founded a company, ME Publishing First Printing, to publish the latter.
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
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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 1965 the Episcopal priest Francis X. Walter was in Wilcox county Alabama, when a quilt on a clothesline outside a small home caught his eye.
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.