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Kyra E. Hicks
Presents the first comprehensive guide to African American quilt history and contemporary practices. It offers more than 1,700 bibliographic references, many of them annotated, covering exhibit catalogues, books, newspapers, magazines…
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Kyra E Hicks
A Saturday morning search of African American newspapers from the 1930s uncovered a startling headline: President Roosevelt Gets Present of Novel Quilt Designed By Indiana Woman. Who was this Hoosier…
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A comprehensive by-year listing of the Movable Book Society Meggendorfer Award finalists, honorable mentions and winners, with full-color photographs of books and paper engineers.
For twenty years, the Movable Book…
Be a quilt artist ] author! If you know how to use Microsoft Word, have Internet access, and a dozen or more images of your artwork, YOU CAN make your…
Do you know a curious quilter? Or maybe you
A handy, eye-opening booklet about today’s Black quiltmakers offering the latest quilt industry figures; most comprehensive resource of websites, blogs, and YouTube videos featuring African American quilters and guilds, including…
The powerful quilts of Harriet Powers (1837-1910), a former Athens, Georgia slave, continue to capture our imagination today. Her two-known creations, the Bible Quilt and the Pictorial Quilt, have independently…
Patricia A. Turner
Explores the culture and recent history of African Americans through the creations and wisdom of nine quilters. Patricia A. Turner profiles quilters who exemplify the range of black women and…
Martha Ann is twelve years old when Papa finally saves enough money to purchase her freedom from slavery. In 1830, the family leaves east Tennessee to begin a new life…
Martha Ann tiene 12 anos de edad cuando Papa logra reunir el dinero suficiente para librarla de la esclavitud. En 1830, la familia entera abandona el este de Tennessee para…
