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Harriet Powers (October 29, 1837 – January 1, 1910) [1] was an American folk artist and quilter born into slavery in rural northeast Georgia. Powers used traditional appliqué techniques to make quilts that expressed local legends, Bible stories, and astronomical events.
Harriet Powers' Bible Quilt, 1886 Harriet Powers , an African-American farm woman of Clarke County, Georgia , has become famous for her quilts of the 1880s. One of her most well-known, and one of her only remaining preserved quilts, was known as the Bible Quilt.
Pictorial Quilt by Harriet Powers c. 1895-98. The quilt is divided into 15 different pictorial images made with pieces of cotton. There is a long tradition of African-American quilting beginning with quilts made by enslaved Africans, both for themselves and for the people who enslaved them.
A new monument for famous quilter Harriet Powers will be presented Saturday at Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery in Athens. New grave marker to honor preeminent Athens quilter and former slave Skip to main ...
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In Her Own Image: Women Working in the Arts is an American feminist anthology published by Feminist Press from Old Westbury, New York on March 1, 1980, and is a part of the Press' larger series entitled "Women's Lives, Women's Work".
Walker's silhouette images work to bridge unfinished folklore in the Antebellum South and are reminiscent of the earlier work of Harriet Powers. Her nightmarish yet fantastical images incorporate a cinematic feel. In 2007, Walker was listed among Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People in The World, Artists and Entertainers". [55]
In Stitched from the Soul (1990), Gladys-Marie Fry asserted that quilts were used to communicate safe houses and other information about the Underground Railroad, which was a network through the United States and into Canada of "conductors", meeting places, and safe houses for the passage of African Americans out of slavery.