#africanamericanquilts

[artsybooker]

"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.

[booksnbobbins]

Learning about #bogolanfini, #nsibidi and #vai this morning. "They are part of an African textile tradition in which abstract, figurative, and geometric designs are used separately, and in combination, to endow the cloth with protective power and to signal information". I am loving how much cultural information is packed into our #BooksandBobbins July/August read, #HiddenInPlainView. There is so much to uppack, enjoy and appreciate. #bookclubofchampions #africanamericanquilts #freedomquilts #quilts #americanquilt #amplifymelanatedvoices #anthropologybooks #books #letsread #letssew (at Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDZXasWgGVW/?igshid=ttvbugfz12z4

[colorjoylynn]

Visited the @msumuseum yesterday. This wonderful art apron, encrusted with buttons, is in a main hallway. It has a deep story and honors those who came before in multiple ways. #art #africanamericanquilts #buttons #quilting #colorjoyfullife

[quiltblock]

In Honor of Dr. King

Repeat his words with me now, aloud.

"All we say to America is, 'Be true to what you said on paper.' If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they hadn't committed themselves to that over there. But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right. And so just as I say, we aren't going to let any injunction turn us around. We are going on. Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop."  -- Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. from his "Mountaintop Speech," delivered April 3, 1968, Mason Temple, Memphis, TN.

Yesterday: Civil Rights in the South,

by Wells, Yvonne, 1989-90.  Source, IQSCM

Quilt Meaning, Making, Metaphors, and Murals

               Per NPR: "Holding Grandmother's Quilt" spans two walls in the West Philadelphia neighborhood of Mantua. Click here to see the other wall of the mural, which depicts the grandmother sewing.                                                                                                        Jack Ramsdale/Mural Arts Program            

For more information: NPR Story: On Philly's Walls, Murals Painted With Brotherly Love

PS.

The Spirituality of Peacemaking produced by PRX as part of their series, The Power of Non-Violence. Talks about SoulForce - is nothing short of a gift.

Banner Image: The New Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. 

Thanks for visiting BLOCK.

[debthelibrarian]

#Quilt made by #rosaparks in 1949. From African American Quiltmaking in Michigan, edited by Marsha L. MacDowell Mrs. Parks (1913-2005) lived in #Michigan after leaving #Alabama. #quilters #quiltmaking #appliquequilts #africanamericanquilters

[hashtagcwinstagram]

#Repost @eastridgedesign ・・・ An American quilt #africanamericanquilters #madebyslaves #reconstructionera #charming #abbyaldrichrockerfellerfolkartmuseum http://ift.tt/2smEPzo

[lisasettegallery]

Our #SubversiveWhite exhibition opens TONIGHT from 7-9pm in midtown Phoenix! See this brand new piece by Ato Ribiero (@ilaama99) and more! • • • Ato Ribeiro’s works, like the early African-American quilts that influence them, contain forms that shift and expand as our eyes adjust to repeating variations in line and shape. As a Ghanian-American artist, Ribeiro’s artwork embodies a vocabulary of histories and materials compiled across continents and cultures. Ribeiro’s marqueted geometrical forms, hand-fashioned entirely of found and discarded wood, present a coded language, contemporary evidence of a shared heritage that is independent of words and has existed for centuries. • • #art #contemporary #contemporaryart #groupshow #wood #woodwork #kente #ghana #ghanian #groupexhibition #phx #phoenix #arizona #atoribeiro #antebellum #antebellumsouth #kentecloth #quilts #africanamerican #africanamericanquilt (at Lisa Sette Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuhnVV8lhzl/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1iwq5d0sc2pca

[trascapades]

🧡🎨 #ArtIsAWeapon Gorgeous #quilt by #TinaWilliamsBrewer entitled “Of This Place: I Come From Over Yonder" (2017), 45.5" x 30.“ If you’re in Dallas, Texas, make your way to see "Tina Williams Brewer - Rising From the Thicket: A Retrospective” exhibit, on view @aamuseumdallas through September 1, 2018. #AfricanAmericanMuseumDallas #StoryQuiltArtist #BlackQuilting #fabric #textiles #storytellers #AfricanAmericanQuilting #BlackWomanArtists #TheQuiltingSistersOfColor #TraScapades #WillTravelForArt #BlackGirlArtGeeks🤓 (at African American Museum of Dallas)

[candyspender-vanrood]

#Repost @sauerkrautmissionary22 (@get_repost) ・・・ #rebeccamylesjones#geesbendquilt#quilt#soulsgrowndeepfoundation#alabama#textileart#africanamericanquilt#folkart#outsiderart

[booksnbobbins]

Scored myself a day of from work so I can get down to business! Just the prefaces for #HiddenInPlainView were CHUCK FULL of interesting information, I am so thrilled to get into the meat of this book. How are my other #bnbbookclubbers enjoying our July/August read so far?! #BooksandBobbins #bookclubofchampions #africanamericanquilts #quilting #bookclub #quiltpattern #history #books #letsread #letssew https://www.instagram.com/p/CC1Xq9fgFvj/?igshid=cw57v30lgfsl

[booksnbobbins]

I'm extra excited about today's #FreedomQuilt #bookshelfbucketlist features that just arrived in the mail! Once I get a chance to dig into these I will also be creating two sew along classes to accompany them; ones kid's course and one adult course! Stay tuned, I'll let you know when these free courses are available on my YouTube channel! In the meantime, check out these awesome reads: #SweetClaraandtheFreedomQuilt by #DeborahHopkins, illustrated by #JamesRansome centers around Clara, a little girl and a slave on a plantation who dreams of being reunited with family, free. She learns of the #undergroundrailroad and is inspired to make a #FreedomQuilt in the form of a #quilt map of the plantation, so fellow slaves could find the way to their freedom. #HiddenInPlainView by #jacquelineltobin and #raymondgdobard investigates and tells the story of real life Freedom Quilts as well as the oral history of African American Slaves.  #booksandbobbins #blacklivesmatter #amplifymelanatedvoices #juneteenth #africanamerican #slavehistory #quiltclass #sewingclass #quilting #africanamericanquilts #letssew #letsread https://www.instagram.com/p/CBpVf-Fg87h/?igshid=1998hd6snwggi

[debthelibrarian]

#quilts #quilting #Africanamericanquilts #aafricanamericanquilters #contemporaryquilts #artquilts

[hashtagcwinstagram]

#Repost @jefferymccullough ・・・ Today was a fantastic day of quilt and decorative arts research in @colonialwmsburg. Thanks to @parsonsadht travel funds I was able to visit four of the best quilt collections in the country this academic year. Williamsburg was my last stop and it was worth the wait. #quilts #quilthistory #americanquilts #africanamericanquilts #americanhistory #africanamericanhistory #decorativearts #parsonsschoolofdesign #gradschool #research #abbyaldrichrockerfellerfolkartmuseum http://ift.tt/2q5BQFw

[trascapades]

🎨 #ArtIsAWeapon Gorgeous #quilt by #TinaWilliamsBrewer entitled "If You Don't Hear the Tap, You Hear the Bang," 1998, 75" x 50." If you're in Dallas, Texas, make your way to see "Tina Williams Brewer - Rising From the Thicket: A Retrospective" exhibit, on view @aamuseumdallas through September 1, 2018. #AfricanAmericanMuseumDallas #StoryQuiltArtist #BlackQuilting #AfricanAmericanQuilting #BlackWomanArtists #TheQuiltingSistersOfColor #TraScapades #WillTravelForArt #BlackGirlArtGeeks🤓 (at African American Museum of Dallas)

[candyspender-vanrood]

#Repost @sauerkrautmissionary22 (@get_repost) ・・・ #nettiejanekennedy#geesbendquilt#quilt#alabama#soulsgrowndeepfoundation #africanamericanquilt#textileart#folkart#outsiderart

[candyspender-vanrood]

#Repost @sauerkrautmissionary22 (@get_repost) ・・・ #lindadianebennett#geesbendquilt #quilt#textileart#alabama#soulsgrowndeepfoundation #africanamericanquilt#folkart#outsiderart