Many protest quilts take to storytelling, such as Faith Ringgold's painted narrative quilts.
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The Dials start to seem like crazed, dimensionalized quilts, the quilts like flattened, more orderly Dials.
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A selection of Mother Scott's quilts is on view in Harriet Tubman — and there are quilts by the daughter, as well.
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The Quilt Index has quilts from across the United States, from Hawaii to Kansas, allowing users to compare various quilts between distant collections.
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There were quilts made for foster children, a textural quilt made for blind children, we also had quilts for victims of HIV/AIDS.
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Yet as the exhibition demonstrates through its 29 examples, these "soldiers' quilts" or "convalescent quilts" as they're often called, were created for diverse purposes.
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The Museum of Fine Arts Boston will acquire 22000 quilts by Gee's Bend artists, and the Spelman College Museum of Art will acquire seven Gee's Bend quilts.
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Some models even looked like they were holding quilts on the runway, like so many security blankets "The funny thing is that quilts just keep on getting rediscovered," Ms. Peck said.
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On the fifth Sunday, Gram brought one of her quilts.
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Artist "SweetSequels" makes stunning quilts covered with classic book covers.
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And it occurred to me to include some Migrant Quilts.
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But there were no flowing dresses or quilts on offer.
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The sleeping bags are the same as quilts to wash.
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It's the essential conflict, and to me quilts reconcile that.
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We see quilts in an anachronistic fashion — they are quaint.
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I stitched quilts for my boys, Bear's Paw, North Wind.
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More than 100 of these quilts are now on view in Neighborhoods Coming Together: Quilts Around Oakland, a citywide exhibition spanning locations from the Oakland City Hall Rotunda to the Women's Cancer Resource Center.
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The most inspiring fabrics were the African-American Gee's Bend quilts.
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Thick knits fused with fine sheers; tessellating quilts with performance parkas.
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GO TO PODIATRY SCHOOL OR SELL QUILTS ON ETSY OR SOMETHING.
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Biggers's latest quilts made up the bulk of the Boesky show.
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Each place the women visited would be added to the quilts.
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The artists in Piecework embed intriguing, coded messages into their quilts.
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The group made quilts and and papier-mâché objects, not ceramics.
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In addition, wartime quilts were sometimes a means of behavior modification.
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Were the mazes meant to acknowledge quilts and other historical textiles?
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A donor has stitched new patchwork quilts for the residents' beds.
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I never thought quilts would be in no museum, no way.
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Video "The way I understand it, Grandma put some wet quilts over them, and some wet quilts over her, and lay on top of them, and they didn't make it out of the fire," said Lamkin.
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WAR AND PIECED: THE ANNETTE GERO COLLECTION OF QUILTS FROM MILITARY FABRICS Twenty-nine rare examples of what used to be called "convalescent quilts," made mostly by 19th-century British soldiers in their downtime. Sept. 6–Jan.
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Eli Leon, a psychologist, writer and collector and self-taught scholar of African-American quilts, who helped bring attention to the field and especially the quilts of Rosie Lee Tompkins, died on March 21987 in Emeryville, Calif.
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"Text Messages," quilts inspired by cellphone use and other forms of communication.
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Eli Leon (1935–2018), psychologist, writer, and scholar of African-American quilts.
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But there's still nothing like the quilts of tiny Gee's Bend, Ala.
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A closer look shows that they're constructed from quilts of metal plates.
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Libraries, quilts, and instant cameras become transformative tools to enrich people's lives.
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"That really turned people's attentions to quilts as art," Mr. Kiracofe said.
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For Mr. Kiracofe, the fashion world's embrace of quilts is long overdue.
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The quilts reflect a collective history and a deep sense of place.
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A dozen of the 18 geometric quilts in the gift are here.
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The numerous quilts shown in the same exhibition are treated very differently.
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In the last gallery you can revel in the vibrant geometric quilts of Mary Lee Bendolph and Annie Mae Young, who emerged in the rapturously received exhibition "The Quilts of Gee's Bend," which toured the country in 2002.
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"So, we do the quilts locally and then the pillowcase dresses go internationally."
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Protest quilts, however, have been traced to as early as the 300th century.
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The quilts reveal as many facets of life here as there are quilters.
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Strangers wrote letters, sent hand-stitched quilts and gave them envelopes with money.
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It will be framed by textile works assembled from fragments of antique quilts.
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AIDS memorial quilt on the National Mall lawn; 20,000 quilts are displayed, 1992.
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State laws impacting Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV, or "drone") operations are patchwork quilts.
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MORRISTOWN "Text Messages," quilts inspired by cellphone use and other forms of communication.
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I collect American quilts and they tell me a lot about the country.
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For example, we showed 36 story-quilts by a Maryland grandmother, Esther Krinitz.
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More sculptures like Day's will be made, but very few quilts like McDonald's.
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The Dallas Museum of Art will acquire seven works, including Gee's Bend quilts.
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Now Lehman's quilts line the walls of museums and private collections around the world.
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Wartime quilts confirm once more that abstraction is hardly the province of modernist painters.
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The quilts of Gee's Bend reflect a collective history and deep sense of place.
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"Quilts are interesting because people can put their own spin on them," she said.
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"Quilts have been ghettoized or boxed in as women's work or Americana,'" he said.
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The quilts come in muted herringbone and geometric patterns, and cost $370 to $955.
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In a way, quilts are to contemporary history what pottery is to ancient history.
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The breadth of Leon's collection and its emphasis on Tompkins's quilts are closely linked.
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Other quilts depict a jazz band mid-song and a bustling graffitied subway platform.
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People gather quilts on the roof of a building in Wuhan, China, Jan. 30.
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Quilts, masks and figurative sculptures are central to the art of the African diaspora.
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Most people suggested softening the plates' fall with soft pads, thick blankets, quilts or mattresses.
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In fairness, though, specific information about many of the quilts is unavailable, lost to history.
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Resembling quilts replete with lost memory, Harsono's visually appealing objects resonate long after the viewing.
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The current exhibition, Function to Freedom: Quilts and Abstract Expressions, is open through January 27.
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Electric motorbikes with drivers tucked behind quilts wove around a cart filled with giant leeks.
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Quilts and blankets that track rainfall, air pollution and temperature have been around for awhile.
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Families with little children spread quilts and pillows on the seats and on the floor.
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Tablets, smartphones, flat screens and laptops, propped next to the bath, secreted under tented quilts.
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The individual quilts remind me of fetal shapes, twisting, turning, and becoming in the womb.
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He repaired officers' uniforms during his internment, and used the leftover scraps to make quilts.
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But her knack for making stick and cornhusk dolls eventually expanded into an affinity for quilts.
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Venom's quilts and fabric art mix punk and metal imagery with traditional quilting—a compelling juxtaposition.
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He started collecting old quilts, mostly from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and added his marks.
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Her mother was the founder of Victoria's Hope Chest in Rosemont, Pa., which created handmade quilts.
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We made quilts and lots of cotton dresses, which is what we wore at the time.
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These quilts have their own secrets, and I'm not sure how you can join them together.
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"In Bengal women use kantha to recycle old, worn-out saris into quilts," Ms. Sachdeva said.
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Before you buy those matching quilts, consider this advice from designers with children of their own.
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First came bone-rattling, shaking chills; she couldn't get warm even under a pile of quilts.
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Among those of us looking for homespun comfort, however, quilts have never been out of style.
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He inspected their dormitories, asking whether they were warm enough with only one layer of quilts.
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AFAM has so far put about 1,500 quilts online, and expects to finish the digitization in 2019.
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Frequently these grassroots initiatives revolved around "quilt days," at which people could have their family quilts documented.
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"I decided to profile quilts that are used to make some kind of a difference," said Hazard.
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The show includes domestic sewing and some more unusual works, like quilts made on a prison ship.
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As a chronically freezing person, I live to enjoy a good book under a mountain of quilts.
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The quilts incorporate techniques used by Picasso and Matisse, who were influenced by African art and symbols.
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Over 30 years he accrued a collection of around 3,500 quilts, including some 200 by Ms. Tompkins.
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Gee's Bend is a rural community in lower Alabama that is widely recognized for its extraordinary quilts.
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The works in Chris Reilly's solo show at Cave gallery feel vulnerable and handmade, like digital quilts.
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Reilly uses his tools to make vulnerable, hand-cut constructions, or digital quilts, as he calls them.
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With their meticulous horror vacui and variegated palette, the flags call to mind Faith Ringgold's storytelling quilts.
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Biggers has worked with quilts before — as in his 2015 solo show Matter (also at David Castillo) and his 2013 exhibition Ago, at Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago — to reference the antebellum South and the idea that quilts were used to discretely map safe spaces along the Underground Railroad.
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Beginning April 21984, the French label A.P.C. will launch a new line of quilts designed by its longtime collaborator Jessica Ogden (who made an early name for herself repurposing vintage quilts into clothing and launched the brand's first quilt collection in 22017 with founder Jean Touitou) inspired by music.
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In a neat visual metaphor, Grace recounts her testimony while piecing together quilts, sewing almost without looking down.
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Alexander, who watched her mother quilt as a child, has already made quilts for her children and grandchildren.
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Near the quilts, multiple video screens showed the "BAM" figures under fire, splintering as the bullets made contact.
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"I'm also a secret quilter, and sometimes make huge quilts that look just like my paintings," she admits.
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Like all of these, the wartime quilts are resounding tributes to human ingenuity and the power of art.
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But she is probably best known in the art world for her large, narrative "story quilts" in fabric.
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Would-be buyers spent the night in tents and under quilts, lined up for a chance to buy.
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He now owns about 75 quilts, split among his home, office, barn and lake house in New Hampshire.
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She quilts different patterned scraps together into the gun shape, then embellishes them with rhinestones, lace, and embroidery.
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Weller strives for similar sustainability with Banjanan, transforming scraps and surplus into limited-edition pajamas and patchwork quilts.
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Instead of leaving, the women have wrapped themselves in quilts and drunk cups of tea to keep warm.
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Ringgold is probably best known for her colorful "story quilts," which she began to make in the 1980s.
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At the foot of our bed is a cedar chest that holds my share of the family quilts.
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It's the first exhibition in the United States to showcase these quilts, almost all made by British soldiers.
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So, suffice to say, it was a jarring experience to see those bagged quilts — or bags that look like those quilts — on the runway at Paris Fashion Week, a place and circumstance that could not be further from those dusty, packed shelves of the lone Oriental market in my Midwestern town.
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She recounts this in her 2015 book, "Wartime Quilts: Appliqués and Geometric Masterpieces From Military Fabrics," which traces a history of war quilts beginning with "The Great Pazyryk Felt," found in southern Siberia, dating from around 300 B.C. and now in the collection of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
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Layer the bed with quilts, duvets, euro shams and decorative pillows like you see in a five-star hotel.
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She sews pillows, headbands, skirts, quilts and in the summer of 2800, she started sewing her own coffee sleeves.
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Fittingly, Adams's quilts hang in a line in a hallway-turned-gallery, suggesting movement through both space and time.
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The Gee's Bend Quilts of Alabama are a huge inspiration for you, how did you find out about them?
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The items — meant to decorate bedrooms and living rooms — consist mostly of soft goods like quilts, shams and coverlets.
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The final minutes of the album's closing number, "Quilts," displays Tigue's facility for balancing spacey modes and galvanizing beats.
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In short order, he decided to concentrate on African-American quilts because their irregular, improvisatory patterns appealed to him.
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Quilts, clothing, furniture, sign painting, and the crafts of the building trades all cross political lines, much like food.
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Quilts can be used in more creative ways than just folded on a bed or slung over a sofa.
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As a child he watched in awe as his grandmother and her group of friends sewed large quilts together.
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Ringgold's "story quilts" — painted on canvas with colorful fabric borders — are a vibrant celebration of everyday African American life.
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A sea of foam pads and quilts and stuffed animals covered the expanse of the one-room carriage house.
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Lower the thermostat at night to about 60 degrees, and use pajamas and quilts to keep warm while asleep.
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Unlike traditional quilts with regular patterns, Mother Scott's are free-form, often employing materials from her life — including beads.
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Also here are two more quilts, made of small irregular squares of color, by the great Rosie Lee Tompkins.
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Each West Elm bundle will include a curated selection of new and seasonal quilts, coverlets, blankets, shams, and decorative pillows.
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"And Still We Rise: Race, Culture and Visual Conversations," 40 quilts from artists of the Women of Color Quilters Network.
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Think of Tracy Emin's quilts, swearwords embroidered on cutesy collars, and plenty of feminist slogans picked out in cross-stitch.
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The perception was that few quilts by African-American women were finely made, with accurate piece work and small stitching.
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It's a lady who quilts, and she tapped into an audience because of YouTube, and rebuilt a town around it.
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HDR especially shines when it comes to things like stain glass windows, reflections on water, and the intricacies of quilts.
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Adams makes the works by cutting out letters from new and used calico, then sewing them onto found antique quilts.
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These were followed by the 1994 New York Beauties: Quilts From the Empire State exhibition that featured highlights at AFAM.
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In fact, one Amazon reviewer says the Ivation Mini Iron works great for ironing the thin seams on quilts, too.
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"And Still We Rise: Race, Culture and Visual Conversations," Forty quilts from artists of the Women of Color Quilters Network.
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I've started to make quilts in the same way, and I'm really enjoying the randomness of how they turn out.
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She also sewed quilts, which I admired, so my mom started taking me to a fabric store that had some.
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Mr. Thomas, who was trained as a photographer, has diversified into artistic forms like African tribal quilts, totems and sculptures.
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At Calvin Klein, Raf Simons paid homage to the American heartland with hand-sewn chiffon dresses inspired by vintage quilts.
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His mother, Armonia, a Native American, made Indian blankets and quilts that his father sold to supplement the family's income.
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In the 1970s, Mr. Leon became a regular at flea markets in and around Oakland, buying quilts of all kinds.
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Quilts are also highly personal, said Amelia Peck, a curator of American decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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"Quilts to me are intrinsically linked to the past," Jean Touitou, a founder of A.P.C., said on the label's website.
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The rest of the quilts are laid, overlapping, on stepped risers that span one side of the long, narrow room.
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And so collectively, all of the works are going to be compiled and we're turning them into these massive quilts.
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The relatively small gallery space brims with 22th-, 227th-, and 20th-century quilts, as well as Abstract Expressionist painting and sculpture.
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"And Still We Rise: Race, Culture and Visual Conversations," 23 quilts from artists of the Women of Color Quilters Network. Jan.
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"And Still We Rise: Race, Culture and Visual Conversations," 28 quilts from artists of the Women of Color Quilters Network. Jan.
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The American Folk Art Museum is digitizing the New York Quilt Project, an archive of over 6,000 quilts and their histories.
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"Gloria was pregnant at the baby shower and had people there bringing homemade quilts saying Alexis' name on it," Arika says.
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GREENWICH "And Still We Rise: Race, Culture and Visual Conversations," Forty quilts from artists of the Women of Color Quilters Network.
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His father, Albert, was a radio actor, and his mother, Elena, sewed quilts for the Works Progress Administration during the Depression.
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The artist cuts the letters from calico and sews them onto antique quilts, making the already dated language harder to read.
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Bands of Pakistani Hindu women crouch over unfinished quilts, stitching away, hoping to sell them in the market to wealthier Indians.
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His home back in Oakland eventually became so crowded with quilts that he built a two-story addition to accommodate them.
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In 1987, he organized a first exhibition of quilts from his collection at the San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum.
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Nurije led Hultcrantz into the bedroom, pulled off the girls' quilts, and undressed them, leaving their blouses draped around their necks.
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Ms. Espinoza, a single mother, has worked three jobs, raffled off quilts and held yard sales to help make the payments.
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Our TV critic has recommendations, including an hour dedicated to quilts, a great animated series and an extremely binge-worthy comedy.
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It is a cornerstone in Ms. Ringgold's career, according to curators, representing the moment when she transitioned from paintings to quilts.
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Here, though, is the picnic area: bright grass, wooden tables, bare-legged couples lying next to each other on quilts, touching.
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Some of my own family quilts are gorgeously complex, but others are barely more than plain rectangles sewn in a row.
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Hundreds of pieces of scrap fabric have been donated to Heft's church to be used to make quilts and dresses for children.
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Many of these quilts are fiercely political and address Oakland's history of racial issues as well as the country's bubbling racial tensions.
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Neighborhoods Coming Together: Quilts Around Oakland is on view in Oakland, California until October 27th; check here for specific dates and locations.
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Function to Freedom: Quilts and Abstract Expressions continues at Sara Kay Gallery (4 East 2nd Street, East Village, Manhattan) through January 27.
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Research on the Underground Railroad, and on the supposed use of quilts as coded signposts, led Biggers to begin painting on them.
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He also included her quilts in the 2000 Whitney Biennial while working as a curator at the Whitney Museum in New York.
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"I was the kid in my neighborhood who was drawing, who was designing quilts for people, who was making stuff," he said.
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Its collection includes more than 7,000 artworks dating from the 18th century to the present, including portraits, books, quilts and other items.
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By the second show, in September 2017, Warhol had entered the mix, along with quilts and prairie dresses and, later, hazmat suits.
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Ms. Adams uses the cozy implications of quilts for a sharper end: reminding viewers of the government's recurring neglect of American Indians.
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At Calvin Klein, Raf Simons has stitched quilts into the brand's fashion collections, while the company's Madison Avenue flagship sells vintage throws.
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A white supremacist's massacre of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., led to more than 500 quilts, prayer shawls and other textiles.
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The quilts in Leon's collection, which were predominantly made by African-American women, have been particularly affected by these prejudices, he said.
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From youth, the combination developed into an unintentional mash-up, resulting in quilts and textile works that defy expectations of the medium.
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The groom, 32, is a founder and president of Project Repat, a company in Boston that creates custom quilts from T-shirts.
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The show is packed with paintings, punching bags, and quilts, the last of which are the artist's first foray into this medium.
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The quilts were made by familiar patterns — star and flower garden and log cabin and wedding ring — if not by familiar hands.
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Back at the juried show, some quilters broke away from narrative quilts and used minimalist designs punctuated by questions and calls to action.
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The estate of art scholar and collector Eli Leon donated nearly 202020,000 quilts to the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
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Rose finally had an answer for all the unused fabric she had lying around the house: she would make one of the quilts.
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But their current goal is to get the quilts to Washington, DC where immigration policy continues to be a point of political stalemate.
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Inspiration came from everywhere — Henri Matisse, flea markets, rug shops, domestic textiles, quilts and wallpaper; glitter was welcomed as much as the grid.
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She will throw her quilts in the washing machine weekly and do the same with duvet covers every week or two, as needed.
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There is nothing about Sylvia Hernandez's colorful quilts that is posturing, nor is the work ingratiating, playing up hackneyed tokens of Hispanic heritage.
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Shopping Guide Whether you're looking for a unique piece of art or something to keep you warm this winter, quilts fit the bill.
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The French label A.P.C. sells a range of limited-edited quilts at its stores, alongside its utilitarian jeans and chicly no-frills shirts.
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The collector Eli Leon left almost 3,000 quilts by African-American artists to Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive as a bequest.
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In 1980, she started making quilts — the first one being a collaboration with her mother — and has to date produced more than 130.
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A trove of 3,163 quilts by African-American artists is surely one of the most transformative museum gifts of the late 20th-century.
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He could see a glow behind the ridgeline above him, and as the winds kicked up, the hillsides erupted into quilts of fire.
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It was even reported in the Morning Chronicle on December 25, 1855 that Queen Victoria had acquired one of Walker's geometric uniform quilts.
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Though there is a tendency to focus on intricate patchwork styles, quilts made of true necessity often had to prioritize using every inch of spare fabric over symmetry or preciousness, and the abstract aesthetics achieved by impoverished female artists making of quilts is on par with these men of painting, who made such a great impact on the concept of fine art.
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Drying racks for damp clothes have another use under her roof—to hold large vibrant quilts, each with its own theme and color scheme.
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One Amazon reviewer who likes to quilt says the Brabantia offers just the right size and sturdiness for ironing both light and heavy quilts.
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The 36-year-old vocal powerhouse showed off her handiwork when she presented homemade quilts for each of her fellow judges on The Voice.
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The collection includes comforter sets, quilts, coverlets, shams, and pillows; and it's divided into pattern themes: Falling Flowers, Modern Medley, Signature, and Heirloom Paisley.
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The contents of her three pieces of luggage included blankets and quilts, according to the statement, and authorities suspected she was attempting to flee.
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Walls of vibrant graphics reflect FAILE's signature juxtaposition of repurposed Americana, including quilts and indigenous symbols, with pulp, sci-fi, and comic book imagery.
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One Amazon buyer acknowledged the high price of the TG1600 Smart Iron, but says it's worth the money, especially considering its performance with quilts.
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The property is furnished with Shaker quilts and a motorboat; every July 4th, a fifteen-foot-long American flag hangs over the back deck.
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From quilts to spirituals to a well-placed "mmmmhmmm" in mixed company, black women have always spoken to each other in coded, cultural language.
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They dress in layers and "sleep cold" in the tower, though they are toasty under Ms. Creed's richly hued, hand made blankets and quilts.
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The quilts' motifs include the oyster industry (it drew many free black workers), family trees and the historic local 1850 Rossville A.M.E. Zion Church.
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The American Folk Art Museum is honoring Raf Simons for his Americana quilts, made in his post as chief creative officer of Calvin Klein.
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Many of the quilts in the show similarly fall flat, trying to depict their subjects too literally and ending up with worn-out platitudes.
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They are also quite rare, because Hawaiian quilts are typically made not to sell, but to pass down from one generation to the next.
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From the scaffolds hang oversize yarn pompoms, vintage quilts (sourced from private auctions in Pennsylvania, where Mr. Ruby grew up) and a tin pail.
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The fashion world's love affair with quilts — a humble item long associated with Grandma's attic and dowdy flea markets — has reached a fever pitch.
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"Weave," with bright green pigment on a yellow ground has trompe l'oeil "fraying" edges, while "July" mimics the irregular arrangements of vernacular patchwork quilts.
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Parachute also offers duvet covers, quilts, pillows, and a feather bed mattress topper that helps you feel like you're literally sleeping on a cloud.
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And I say when I get older, I'm going make me lots of quilts so I can have them to keep my kids warm.
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I grew up watching my mother make quilts so that we wouldn't catch a chill from the winds that whistled through the drafty house.
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Ms. Houldsworth said collectors are very keen on Ms. Ringgold: Prices for story quilts and paintings range from $500,000 to more than $5 million.
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Covering more ground than the exhibition, it should appeal to anyone even mildly obsessed with quilts, or the history of geometric abstraction outside painting.
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Beneath them, the villagers' worldly goods — tables, chairs, pots, pans, barrels, baskets full of things wrapped in blankets, sheets, and quilts — are piled up.
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Ogden, who was born in Jamaica, asked the French photographer Alfredo Piola to shoot the quilts and cushions atop the country's Blue Mountain Peak.
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As it happens, the museum's first temporary exhibition, which opened in February and runs through July 7, is a gallery full of gorgeous quilts.
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The widely shared painting promoted quilting as occupational therapy, and contributed to the later belief that all military quilts were made by recovering soldiers.
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It's fascinating to discover the echoes of patchwork within the paintings and, conversely, hints of the quintessential fluidity of Abstract Expressionism woven into the quilts.
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Surrounding Manganiello's piece are Yayoi Kusama's "Here Comes the Village of Satan" (1975), Lee Krasner's "Untitled" (1962), and two quilts, a "World's Fair Quilt" (ca.
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The front gallery space was filled with the artist's magnificent quilts, which imagined different vignettes from Turner's life, humanizing him and avoiding depictions of violence.
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She draws from her position as a Civil Rights leader and her childhood during the Harlem Renaissance to make quilts centered on African American history.
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From an aesthetic perspective, a lot of the quilts were made of repurposed workwear materials, like grain sacks or janitor's uniforms, so they feel contemporary.
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Started by the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) in the 1980s, the archive includes information and photographs of over 19943,000 quilts, mostly made before 1940.
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Down pillows and quilts will keep you warm, as temperatures generally range from about 40 degrees Fahrenheit at night into the 70s during the day.
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Yet the piece is so carefully constructed, like the quilts that Shaw grew up with in North Carolina, that even its showiest bits fit together.
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Using a wide variety of approaches, though mostly sticking to a rectilinear format, the artists all share an interest in embedding messages into their quilts.
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Like the quilts Grace makes, there is a whole here that can't always be observed from the scraps that will come together to form it.
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The museum says this is the first exhibition in the United States devoted to wartime quilts made of felted wool, as opposed to woven fabrics.
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One year she helped stage a sale of the many Anglo quilts that Mr. Leon had acquired and in which he was no longer interested.
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Ms. Peck and Mr. Kiracofe also mentioned the AIDS quilt as bringing quilts, and all their associations with community and craftsmanship, to the American consciousness.
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Brilliantly colored quilts from the 18th and 19th centuries made by soldiers and tailors alike using military fabrics were not well known in this country.
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His quilts are no longer displayed flush against backdrops as they were in previous exhibitions, but are now increasingly working their way off the wall.
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The movement between the specificity of his paintings, and the abstraction of media like mirrors, neon, and quilts create a sophisticated and dreamy immersive environment.
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She occupied most of her time by hand quilting, and we thought she would've appreciated having one of her quilts with her at the hospital.
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The American Folk Art Museum in New York is exhibiting wartime quilts made by British soldiers from their uniforms in the 22018th and 22th centuries.
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But from basket top handle silhouettes to functional, beach-friendly totes, crochet has proven itself to transcend beyond your grandma's flimsy and worn out afghan quilts.
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His inspirations have ranged from lesser-known American Precisionists, such as Ralston Crawford, to Shaker quilts, to the Harlequin pattern we see in early Picasso paintings.
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Many of AAQGO's quilts look more like abstract collages or oil landscapes than patchworks, so painterly and expressionistic is their makers' use of thread and fabric.
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In the two years since, she has created and given away over 150 of her unique quilts, to people with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.
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Partly to break up this routine, and to work in a medium less dependent on the generosity of institutional patrons, he recently began painting on quilts.
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Rescue teams arrived in Longcao the next morning, he said, adding that many residents were moved to a nearby school and given food, water and quilts.
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Recently, it announced a partnership with West Elm that will allow subscribers to rent "bundles" of pillows, throws and quilts for their living rooms and bedrooms.
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And Loewe, under the direction of its craft-happy designer Jonathan Anderson, showcased a collection of artisan-made quilts at the Milan Furniture Fair in April.
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It is dominated by the dialogue between the rough-hewed relief paintings of Thornton Dial and the geometrically, chromatically brilliant quilts of the Gee's Bend collective.
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We wrapped ourselves in quilts (even Southern France can get chilly in winter) and sipped from mugs of coffee on pastel sofas, notebooks in our laps.
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"Harriet's Closet" continues outdoors with a fiberglass figure made to look like bronze, standing in a sea of quilts and not far from a lynched figure.
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With the acquisition, the museum will also receive 11 quilts by the women of Gee's Bend, a remote community in Alabama renowned for its beautiful quilting.
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A reproduction of the painting is included in War and Pieced: The Annette Gero Collection of Quilts from Military Fabrics at the American Folk Art Museum.
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War and Pieced was curated by Stacy C. Hollander, chief curator at the American Folk Art Museum, with quilt historian Annette Gero, author of Wartime Quilts.
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A feminist quilt still shocks — last March, two quilts at the Tucson Quilters Guild annual show — one anti-Trump, and one pro-immigration — were subjects of controversy.
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American blood is made of those beloved two-crusted apple pies invented by the Pennsylvania Dutch and ratted blankets stitched to quilts to keep out the cold.
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Now, it's launching a collection of crib sheets, swaddles, quilts, pillows, and luxurious cashmere blankets that will make lovely gifts for the expecting moms in your life.
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More captivating to the kids was the iridescent synthetic fabric Towns layers throughout the story quilts to form the night sky, glimmering with metal and glass beads.
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The layering of the material gives the quilts a depth that shifts and gleams as the viewer moves around the work, a painterly quality Towns can't avoid.
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The quilts that the Bendolph print reflects — also shoehorned into the last part of the show — have been made for generations as an expression of cultural identity.
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And in the hallway we receive reminders of political movements concerning matters of life or death: pins calling for political or social reform, attached to draped quilts.
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For background, she layers canvases and panels with a patchwork of fabrics that show through her figures, as if the families she portrays are woven into quilts.
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"Things like accent pillows, textured throws and quilts, and even a pretty, subtle wallpaper are all good ways to keep things calm without being boring," she added.
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This suggests that the felt quilting technique accommodated many different skill sets; makers with limited chops made more abstract, evenly patterned quilts that look especially modern today.
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Evoking traditional craftsmanship and the comforts of home, quilts have made their presence felt all over the fashion landscape of late, especially in high-end men's wear.
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Food, stories, discussions, dances and, after an opening ceremony and a two-mile walk, settling down for the night on a 4,000-square-foot bed of quilts.
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There were also nods to 1970s-era craft obsessions: thickly crocheted knits, leather pants and belts and a couple of dresses that looked more like American quilts.
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Moreover, the International Quilt Invitational is curated to global tastes, featuring a collection of quilts that bring to mind a tally of attractions inside a traveler's guidebook.
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Surface space: As discussed by Mimi's Quilt Shop, some ironing boards are wider or longer than normal, which can be beneficial when ironing certain items, such as quilts.
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Gina Adams sews text from the American Indian Treaties onto quilts, articulating the deception and violence used to marginalize Native Americans in the formation of the United States.
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Twenty quilts created from the 1930s through 2003 by female artists from the area around Gee's Bend, Alabama, were also part of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation's donation.
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Take, for example, one of the first works you see upon entering the Bemis: Gina Adams's Its Honor is Here Pledged, an installation of her Broken Treaty Quilts.
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Though the veracity of this practice has been disputed, quilts are often stories themselves, and these works tell a history of violence and, in its face, quiet tenacity.
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He said that upon seeing his quilts, his mother and sister recognized some of the fabrics from dresses they'd made for themselves to wear to the Kingdom Hall.
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Called Into the Bedroom, it offers all the ambient trappings of a cozy place to lay your head: quilts, candles, hampers and mugs in soothing colors and motifs.
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Some quilts are influenced by cultures under occupation, especially Britain's greatest colony, India, where tailors sometimes outlined the composition with rows of tiny glass beads, to spectacular effect.
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The new capsule collection from Loewe's Jonathan Anderson was born from the same sense of wonder with which the designer once marveled over his grandmother's hand-knit quilts.
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The people in Stephen Towns's story quilts are silhouettes, featureless except when an occasional row of neat orange or green stitching marks out the jut of a chin.
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They occupy a space somewhere between the early quilts of Gee's Bend and the work of Hesse, Rauschenberg, Bontecou, Burri, Scarpitta, Manzoni — even, perhaps, Ryman, Marden, and Resnick.
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Despite Leon's recognition of the quilts as substantial pieces of art, it has taken some time for the collection he assembled to be seen that way by others.
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Beginning this summer, Unlimited subscribers will have access to 26 curated "bundles" of West Elm pillows, throws, shams, quilts, and coverlets that will work in bedrooms and living areas.
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Benign in appearance, the quilts are subversive in their hybrid identity as documents and textiles — a form broadly considered a staple of American (and particularly European American) folk art.
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Give people a "creative space" and a latte, however, and they will start weaving quilts, writing poems, composing rap songs and otherwise adding to the store of human civilisation.
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Pillows are available for under $15, sheets sets are being sold for under $25, and comforters, duvets, quilts, and 5-piece bed sets are all going for under $50.
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One of the quilts at the Bemis displays the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican–American War and set the new border between the two countries.
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Seek inspiration in the American Folk Art Museum's forthcoming show of so-called "convalescent quilts," which were pieced together by soldiers from bits of uniforms and other military textiles.
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MATANA ROBERTS Ms. Roberts, a saxophonist and conceptual artist, has called some of her works "patchwork sound quilts," which bring together autobiography, folklore, spoken and sung texts and visuals.
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But many of the quilts avoid references to war or any images at all, gathering power from an impressive, admittedly heraldic, range of geometric patterns and their optical effects.
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TEXTILES The craze for quilts has left the environs of antiques and migrated into contemporary art and museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which now regularly exhibits them.
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Gina Adams's "Broken Treaty Quilts," two of which are on view, contain the text of pacts that the United States government made with Native American tribes and then broke.
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She doesn't really have much to constitute a dowry — a few quilts made by my mother, some embroidered pillowcases from her great-grandmothers and a set of Haviland china.
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Quilts, pillows, comforters, and mattress pads are also available from this bedding startup, so if you want your entire bedding ensemble to match, you've come to the right place.
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Liberty House sold handbags, book bags, dresses, children's clothes, pillows, quilts and other "crafts of freedom," as they were known, produced by an outfit called the Poor People's Corporation.
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It has also opened more than 20 of its own brick-and-mortar stores in North America and started selling pillows, sheets, quilts, bedroom furniture and even dog beds.
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The title piece, "Selah," from 2017, like all the other works, is a large human figure reminiscent of sub-Saharan African statuary though it is sculpted from antique quilts.
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West Elm will offer 26 exclusive bundles of decorative pillows, throws, shams, quilts, and coverlets designed for living rooms and bedrooms through Rent the Runway's $159 a month unlimited subscription.
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Then there are services at the suburban megachurches, and quilts that people have made and delivered, Japanese cranes, letters full of well-wishes and even a visit from President Clinton.
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Hayneedle: Save up to 20% on comforters, sheets, quilts, and more until January 14 and shop the Gameday Furniture Sale until January 25, with free shipping on orders over $49.
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Shop here for on-trend casual pieces like striped sailor shirts and oversized duster jackets; the brand also makes jeans for babies, and other stuff like tote bags and quilts.
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On Thursday, the two companies announced that select bundles of West Elm's decorative pillows, throws, shams, quilts and coverlets would be available to rent short term starting in early June.
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But over the past 50 years or so, suburbs have expanded into the forest and broken it up into little patchwork quilts, so opossums and chipmunks have become [relatively] rare.
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"People fight back on this because they say the washing of the quilts or the restuffing of the duvet into its washed cover makes it more time-consuming," she said.
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The group provides instruction, an online pattern store (John Serrao created over 1,000 designs himself) and a selection of quilts for sale by the circle's unofficial master quilter, Patricia Gorelangton.
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To reverse lingering dinge or yellowing, consider Engleside Restoration, especially for antique or vintage textiles like quilts and ceremonial clothing, such as baptismal or wedding dresses, you want to save.
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And out came two-tone satin cowboy shirts with contrasting satin trousers or pencil skirts, branded patchwork quilts, jeans and jean jackets with paint rolled over thick on one side.
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It may sound like a good idea, but you should never place pillows, quilts, comforters, toys, or other objects in your baby&aposs crib while they sleep for any reason.
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They are a world of exuberance and color, swirling portraits that show off a fluency with art drawn from multiple eras: 1960s psychedelia, Tibetan mandalas, American quilts, Madhubani paintings. Gorgeous.
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Mohammed's media are multitudinous, from the props and sets of the various worlds to more conventional paintings and photographs, quilts, neon, airbrush t-shirts, soft sculpture, video, and audio works.
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Send her your old drawers, and Coralina Meyer will sew them into one of her "Cunt Quilts," the first of which will fly at this weekend's Women's March on Washington.
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War and Pieced: The Annette Gero Collection of Quilts from Military Fabrics continues through January 7, 2018 at the American Folk Art Museum (2 Lincoln Square, Upper West Side, Manhattan).
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Why you'll love it: For those who regularly iron large fabrics, such as curtains or quilts, the Bartnelli Multi-Layered T-Leg Extra Wide Ironing Board can handle the work effectively.
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The walls of Momentum's hideous temporary headquarters are decorated with peace quilts, a global justice banner made of denim (because of its "association with working people everywhere") and trade union banners.
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The bicycle rickshaw pullers, peeling one of his 25-rupee, or 210-cent, quilts off a pile, fold their bodies into strange angles on the four-foot seats of their vehicles.
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"People would bring their quilts to YMCAs or churches or museums, and we would have registrars there who would help the individuals fill out the forms and take photographs," Lester said.
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The beach houses many of us grew up visiting had creaky floorboards, musty pantries, and an almost endless supply of grandma quilts that could have been sewn by Oregon Trail travelers.
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" Thursday through Sunday, Flux Factory hosts performances, offers a family gumbo, presents quilts, and holds an artist talk and closing party, all part of a ritual of "memorial and a rebirth.
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This show is maybe the most PBS-y show on PBS these days, so much so that the PBS king Ken Burns himself shows up to discuss his love of quilts.
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Two six-hour blocks of episodes from "A Craftsman's Legacy" follow Eric Gorges, a metal shaper, as he apprentices with people who make tools, buckets, furniture, quilts, baskets and stained glass.
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Described by Suzy Quilts as "reliable and traditional," these shears are heavy-duty and look pretty conventional with metal handles that most users describe as comfortable and stronger than plastic handles.
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As for the notion that passengers on the Underground Railroad communicated with one another by means of quilts: that idea originated, without any evident basis, in the eighties (the nineteen -eighties).
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"Water damage and leaking pipes are the main cause of prewar bathrooms looking like 'patchwork quilts,'" said Michael Redmond, of Dublin Tile Co., which restored the tile in Ms. Merck's apartment.
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Luckily you can take home pieces with you—just about everything in the room from the custom quilts to the vintage records can be taken and they'll simply charge you later.
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That said, the Gee's Bend quilts are, whenever possible, identified according to their makers: Geraldine Westbrook, Leola Pettway, Katie Mae Pettway and Deborah Pettway Young, and at least one unknown artist.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Function to Freedom: Quilts and Abstract Expressions, an exhibition at the recently opened Sara Kay Gallery, elevates and celebrates artworks created by women across several mediums.
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Unlike the quilts, the Joy Cometh series is rendered in oil paint and portrays the slave rebels in highly realistic likenesses based on Towns himself and five others who modeled for him.
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Children will learn about her verse as well as about the symbols and patterns of African-American quilts, then create tapestry designs with cloth and yarn that incorporate poems of their own.
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Raven + Lily is the one of the only brands on the list that makes clothes, jewelry, and accessories as well as items for the home such as candles, ceramics, quilts and duvets.
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Having retreated to a single room in the old mansion, she was prepping for her second freezing winter, barricaded by thick quilts, her bed next to a fireplace stocked with split wood.
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The art by Ms. Yeh, 79, the quilts by Ms. Krinitz, who died in 363, and other work in the exhibition is in step with a trend in the global art world.
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Mr. Burns has been buying American quilts since the mid-1970s, often on prowls through antique stores on the back roads of New England; before too long, dealers began coming to him.
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Ringgold confronts American slavery, and the legally sanctioned rapes that accompanied it, head on in her narrative quilts, such as "The Slave Rape Story Quilt" (1984–85) and "The Purple Quilt" (1986).
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His passion for her quilts led him to buy as many as he could and also inspired him to seek out work by other African-American quilt makers in the Bay Area.
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These final quilts will be displayed inside of a barn that we're building with the Amish community in the center of a corn maze, which a farmer has donated his land for.
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Viewed together, the quilts in War and Pieced are haunting reminders of the lives given and maimed in the British Empire's global conquest, and those that continue to be lost to war.
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If you often have wide fabrics to iron, such as curtains and quilts, you'll love the 51-by-19-inch ironing space on the Bartnelli Multi-Layered T-Leg Extra Wide Ironing Board.
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Among these Broken Treaty Quilts is the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie — the agreement that defined the Great Sioux Reservation, which originally encompassed the entire Western half of South Dakota, including Standing Rock.
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The quilts range from a midcentury flower garden quilt that was completed after its creator's death by the Amish in Cattaraugus County, to an early 1900s strip silk quilt crafted from dressmaking scraps.
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A Consumer Reports test recommended CVS-brand Big Quilts for its ability to scrub and hold water and found that CVS's normal price for Bounty paper towels was significantly better than at Walgreens.
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She has since come around — so much so that the museum recently opened "Sugar Hill Songbook: Select Work by Faith Ringgold," a show of her quilts, soft sculpture, illustrations and works on paper.
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Asked if Mr. Leon had made any quilts himself, Ms. Hurth said he had — seven of them — to keep himself occupied while he was waiting to hear about the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1989.
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In contrast to the rest of the prison of concrete slab jail cells, hospice patients have beds with colorful quilts in individual rooms or curtained-off cubicles, many with private televisions and radios.
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Be it Faith Ringgold's narrative quilts, Mona Hatoum's visceral "Hair Necklace" and "Stream" (hair stitched into toilet paper), or Grayson Perry's provocative and often political tapestries, there is much tactile work to discover.
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In the Al Kausar Nagar migrant camp in Jodhpur, huts made out of thin, wispy branches, like birds' nests, nestle in clusters, with quilts with vibrant Pakistani tribal designs hanging off their sides.
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A segment of the Sphinx is decorated with the lacy designs of the women's marriage quilts, which they brought to the garden's workshop and pressed against unbaked clay tiles to leave their imprints.
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Fishtail is a town that's not even a town — it's an unincorporated community of fewer than 1003 people whose main attraction is its general store, which sells, among other things, homemade pies and quilts.
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The quilts did not shy away from depicting traumatic events like the murder of Eric Garner, or the mass shooting that took 58 lives at a country music festival in Las Vegas last October.
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You can watch clips of what happened next on YouTube: groups of twentysomethings in too little clothing huddled under quilts and jackets, the sound of hail and small, surprised screams drowning out the song.
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Much More Than a Hobby: Colorado Woman's Handcrafted Quilts Help Calm People With Alzheimer's Tucker was seeking a return to the working world after serving a nearly two-year stint for a weapons charge.
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About six months ago, Ms. Coleman and her guild sisters came up with an elaborate idea: designing narrative quilts that would convey in cloth the personality, history and social complexity of their home ground.
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The floral printed panels of fabric that make up each portion of the Cave Variations are recognizably nakshi kantha, embroidered quilts stitched from old saris and fabrics that are native to the Bengal region.
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Hazard returned to the project some years later, when she was called upon to curate an exhibition for the annual festival, Tucson Meet Yourself, and chose quilts with an activist cause as her subject.
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The musical, by Michael Sgouros and Brenda Bell, is preceded by an hourlong arts workshop, in which children will help make quilts to be donated to Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals across the country.
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London-based Austrian artist Simon Mullan has taken this iconic jacket and turned it into quilts as part of an upcoming exhibition Die Fläche (The Surface) at new gallery PM/AM in Marylebone, London.
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Ms. Westphal's canvases — which included quilts, kimonos, dresses and baskets — reflected her life and her world travels, and were distinguished by her pioneering use of heat-dying processes to transfer photocopied images onto fabrics.
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It recently announced that it had partnered with Rent the Runway to provide subscribers with "curated bundles" of throws and pillows for living rooms and blankets or quilts, throw pillows and shams for bedrooms.
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This sharing of stories, food, song and dance will unfold on and around 4,000 square feet of quilts, created at sewing bees in the United States, Australia and Taiwan over the past three years.
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The quilts are placed in no particular order and, apart from those made in Alabama, the only one identified with a specific locale is an English "Log Cabin" quilt from the early 19th century.
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The flowing Michelle Smith dress that accentuates her body also recalls the renowned quilts of Gee's Bend and the abstract canvases of Piet Mondrian, as if to blend black vernacular culture with modernist painting.
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Other quilts are celebratory: Marsha Carter pays homage to Delilah Leontium Beasley, who in the 1920s became the first African-American female columnist to be published in a major mainstream metropolitan newspaper, the Oakland Tribune.
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The population still hovers around 12,000, the Los Alamos National Laboratory is still in the business of "national security science," and kitschy stores and restaurants with names like Atomic City Quilts or Atomic Eyecare abound.
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The quilts at the convention could be easily commercialized, and yet, these pieced-together phrases still combat the stereotype that quilting is an activity for your polite, but racist, grandmother left behind in flyover country.
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It is one of a dozen or so guilds across the country dedicated to furthering the tradition in black American culture, but few groups have taken on the challenge of defining a city through quilts.
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But for many years, Ms. Mazloomi said, cultural historians pigeonholed African-American quilts, assuming that black quilters had a preference for bright colors and large, asymmetrical piecing — like those famously made in Gee's Bend, Ala.
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The show presents a wide range of objects from the late-18th century to the early-20th, including paintings, signs, furniture, architectural elements, jewelry, quilts, carved picture frames, ceremonial props and a wooden grave marker.
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The company, located on the fringes of Sonagachi, Kolkata's red light district, employs 120 women to stitch old saris together to create quilts and bags - with each item named after the woman who made it.
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But he'll be most remembered for his passion for African-American quilts, especially those of the artist Rosie Lee Tompkins (22016-212), whom he met at a flea market in the Oakland area in 1985.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The quilts created by hand by Sylvia Hernandez (aka Brooklyn Quilt Girl) and currently on the wall of caribBEING's mobile house are so sincere that I immediately like them.
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Two years ago, for example, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas purchased one of octogenarian artist, author and activist Faith Ringgold's "story quilts" for $461,000 — a record (times 30) for the artist.
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The society, established in 1979, maintains its museum in an unassuming house filled with African masks, exhibits on past community residents and "Binding Ancestry: The Heritage & Artistry of Handmade Quilts," an exhibition to which Mrs.
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Roderick Kiracofe, the author of "The American Quilt: A History of Cloth and Comfort," recalls the popular exhibition "Abstract Design in American Quilts" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1971 as a touchstone.
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The High Museum of Art received 54 works from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, including pieces by Thornton Dial, Joe Light, Mary T. Smith, and 11 quilts created by the women of Gee's Bend, Alabama.
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The Avett Brothers have announced a new album, True Sadness, in a very Avett Brothers way — with an emotional 1,074-word open letter on the passing of time, the line between life and art and .... quilts.
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Throughout the decades, Ms. Vanderbilt's fantastical interiors — rooms layered from floor to ceiling in gingham or antique quilts — settings as intricate as her artwork, have showed up in Vogue, House & Garden, W, Life and Vanity Fair.
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At the end of this month, a new online auction will give quilt collectors from around the world their chance to bid on 50 art quilts by world renowned fabric artist, author, and teacher Libby Lehman.
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Established in 220, the restaurant chain is known for its casual dining and American comfort foods: chicken and biscuits, meat loaf, chicken fried steak as well as its quilts and signature meat and cheese gift baskets.
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" The flight of Varina and her motley caravan from Richmond is beautifully rendered; they pick their way through a terrain "scoured to bare nubs" and encounter refugees "pushing wheelbarrows heaped with quilts and cookware and canvas.
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To create her images, she photographs, scans, and captures old quilts and afghans (Blanket Statement #1 and #2), tie-dye T-shirts (Undertone Overtone), discarded color sample booklets (New Fancy Foils), and gaudy fabrics (Razzle Dazzle).
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Among the riches of the Eli Leon collection are over 100 dazzling quilts and other textile works by Rosie Lee Tompkins, (1936-21907), one of the few women in the top tier of American outsider artists.
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She has to keep her reach small, she explained: Her collection is built around vintage, antique and deadstock fabrics that she finds, from heirloom family quilts to African country cloths, and they are not infinitely extensible.
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Collectively, the images form a sweeping vision of Oakland in cloth; if all 100 quilts were themselves stitched together, the resulting massive patchwork would tell a story as layered and complex as the city that inspired it.
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It is within this context that the Baltimore-based, African-American artist Stephen Towns made his own series of paintings and quilts based on Turner's rebellion, after he received research funding from a Rubys Grant in 2015.
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For the piece "Selah" (2017), he has taken bits of antique quilts — the endowment of hands and ancestral knowledge passed from generation to generation — and added sequins to fold over a figure that is itself in tatters.
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Her current show at the Missoula Art Museum entitled What Lies Beneath features a number of custom-made textile works Hiltner put together from discarded quilts and hand-stitched linens she found in antique and thrift stores.
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That this work was done in domestic capacity, often by women, and through a process of collectivized labor all served to obscure the vision, problem-solving, story-telling, and masterful execution of quilts as an art form.
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Wearing T-shirts with photos of their missing sons as handmade quilts and posters commemorating the dead lined the Bogota courtroom's walls, a dozen mothers and other relatives described their long quest for justice before three judges.
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He shook their hands and collected each student's name before they returned to pointing out their favorite textiles used in "Special Child," (2016) a piece acquired by the BMA for its collection from Towns's Story Quilts series.
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I'm very inspired by my ancestors and have revisited this subject matter throughout my career from the Ancestors performance pieces of the 1970s to the Coming to Jones Road Part II Story Quilts from the early 2000s.
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Since then, Hazard has been an active part of the entirely volunteer staff that coordinates the continued creation of quilts, promotion of the exhibition, and logistics that enables the works to travel to locations around the country.
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Featuring 190 artifacts from a collection recently donated to the museum, this enthralling show includes paintings, signs, furniture, architectural elements, jewelry, quilts, carved picture frames, ceremonial props and a wooden grave marker, all baring mysterious, hieroglyphic symbols.
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Referencing the jacket's ties to subcultures—mods, punks, neo-Nazis—military groups and its links to the US Air Force of the mid-20th century, Mullan creates large and small textile quilts from the disassembled nylon garments.
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"Eli Leon turned the full force of his exceptional intelligence and visual acumen onto the field of African-American quilts," Lawrence Rinder, director of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, told The San Francisco Chronicle.
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But it's hard to shake the grip of that commodified version of the South, laden with heirloom quilts and dripping with barbecue sauce, when everyone — even Reese Witherspoon — is telling you that that's the way to live.
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For this year's showcase, Gorelangton handmade a large square quilt that features a koi fish design by John Serrao, and Loewe will display this along with three of her other quilts in the Milan store during Salone.
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Though 75, she seems 15 years younger, and her handiwork is all over the house: a fruit pie cooling on the kitchen table, handsome quilts on the couch, elaborate Christmas stockings that she sews for her grandchildren.
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Featuring 219803 artifacts from a collection recently donated to the museum, this enthralling show includes paintings, signs, furniture, architectural elements, jewelry, quilts, carved picture frames, ceremonial props and a wooden grave marker, all baring mysterious, hieroglyphic symbols.
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Featuring 245 artifacts from a collection recently donated to the museum, this enthralling show includes paintings, signs, furniture, architectural elements, jewelry, quilts, carved picture frames, ceremonial props and a wooden grave marker, all baring mysterious, hieroglyphic symbols.
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Featuring 260 artifacts from a collection recently donated to the museum, this enthralling show includes paintings, signs, furniture, architectural elements, jewelry, quilts, carved picture frames, ceremonial props and a wooden grave marker, all baring mysterious, hieroglyphic symbols.
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Sweetflag divides its products among three stages of the smoking experience: before (candles, incense, stashes, flasks), during (some seriously pretty pipes) and after, (everything from eye masks and quilts to air purifiers and a copper head massager).
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From Dadaist collage to Romare Bearden and African American quilts, Quinn joins those who believe that reality might best be recognized by its disjunctions, patchwork sensations, and complex social strata, rather than by insistent, single-point perspectives.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads BALTIMORE — The room in the Baltimore Museum of Art housing Rumination and a Reckoning, an exhibition of 2120 quilts by Stephen Towns, feels more like an intimate chapel than a textiles gallery.
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And as part of a series of advertisements hashtagged #myCalvins, Mr. Simons placed those most American of superstars, the Kardashian-Jenner sisters, in an abandoned horse barn with the reality pioneers swathed in red-and-white patchwork quilts.
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I see the quilts as a logical extension of Clippinger's longtime use of scraps to make brightly painted wall reliefs, such as "puzzle" (2017), which is made of two layers of wood stacked on top of each other.
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When: October 12, 2019–January 25, 2020 Where: Art + Practice (3401 W 113rd Pl, Leimert Park, Los Angeles) Stephen Towns brings his powerful political quilts, including a series inspired by Nat Turner and the 1831 rebellion he led.
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Over the course of six hours, participants are invited to join in a communal sewing bee where they can stitch messages onto quilt squares, which will become part of Thompson's collective project to create 84 hand-sewn quilts.
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The tradition of telling stories through quilts is a long and rich one in African-American culture, and the AAQGO is one of many guilds around the country carrying on this tradition in response to 21st century social issues.
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Regarding the fabric pieces, though the show provides some detail regarding the origins of the quilts, many of the quilt makers remain nameless — a symptom of quilt-making's history as a domestic hobby rather than a legitimate art form.
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The New York City-based company, which has previously only rented out designer apparel and accessories, will let customers try out soft home goods, including quilts, blankets, shams and decorative pillows made by West Elm beginning in the summer.
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And he made trips to the area of northeast Texas, northwest Louisiana and southern Arkansas, where many of the African-American quilt makers he knew in California had come from, visiting their relatives, interviewing them and buying more quilts.
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The most ambitious of Mr. Leon's shows was "Accidentally on Purpose: The Aesthetic Management of Irregularities in African Textiles and African-American Quilts," held at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, in 2006, the year Ms. Tompkins died.
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But the quilts, in "Ruminations and a Reckoning" at the Baltimore Museum of Art, are also a visually arresting reversal of the usual distinction between foreground and background that makes the starkly outlined figures leap out like avenging angels.
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At this annual festival, they get buzzed, yarn gets dyed, wool gets spun, quilts get quilted, and children get to ride around in hay-filled wagons, rock out to the bluegrass band Coyote & Crow and maybe adopt a worm.
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While we're here on the subject of vintage textiles, Engleside also makes a product called Quilt Wash that's worth mentioning, as I've gotten no small amount of questions over the years about how best to care for precious quilts.
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Outside the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, a large hospital in New Delhi that offers free treatment to the country's poorest, hundreds of patients sprawled out on sidewalks, covering themselves with quilts for a night in the cold.
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However, the fearless resistance conveyed through the arpilleras — small traditional quilts sewn upon burlap — on display at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) does not leave the memories of Chile's brutal military dictatorship (229–1990) up for interpretation.
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BEST FIRST IMPRESSION "War and Pieced: The Annette Gero Collection of Quilts From Military Fabric" at the American Folk Art Museum and its furnace blast of geometric patterns, predominantly in the reds, blacks and yellows of the military fabrics.
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The whirligigs and kinetic sculptures in Shelter: David Butler + Leslie Umberger, including a bike festooned in metal shapes, are bordered on two sides by improvisational quilts by African American women, connecting the two intuitive, community-based traditions of Southern black art.
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Add in a few looks that were more literal than others — Nepali quilts, survival blanket dresses (indeed, in their blinding splendor), knitted balaclava hats — and Simons rounded out a vision that may have felt dark, but was, nevertheless, assuredly optimistic.
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Whether these points of inspiration are readable to the untutored viewer is debatable, but they are lovely compositions, in a patchy and improvisational visual language that calls to mind Gee's Bend quilts or collage art redacted to fields of color.
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I spent countless hours sitting in front of my family's boxy Dell desktop in our "office," which was really just a room with my grandpa's old rocking chair, framed quilts, and a faux-wood desk that could fit a computer.
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They join the expanding category of 18th and 19th-century geometric abstraction of the West, whose achievements include Amish quilts, Navajo blankets and the parfleche rawhide containers of the Plains Indians, made of elegantly thin leather and usually painted by women.
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Clearing out the quilts from his attic after he moved to the care facility in November 2016, Ms. Hurth discovered that the floor beneath them was covered edge to edge with at least 12 inches of clothing and vintage fabric.
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While quilts have been documented around the world, including in China, Egypt and Europe, the form blossomed in America as the cotton industry exploded in the mid-1800s (a period that Ms. Peck thinks of as the "heyday" of quilting).
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Jenny Hurth, the executor of Leon's estate, said that he chose to leave his collection to the Berkeley museum because Mr. Rinder was among the first people in the art world to recognize the value of the quilts he had acquired.
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Ms. Johnson is just as fond of her other collaborators, who include the dancers Tania Isaac and Georgia Lucas, a 12-year-old from Newark who performed in "Shore," as well as the textile artist Maggie Thompson, who designed the quilts.
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I envision quilts, fabric for garments, scrolls, wallpaper, wall hangings, works of collage and any other forms that one's imagination and handiwork can produce, followed by local exhibitions so that a wider section of the populace can share in the experience.
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A polished bronze warrior figure with quilts wrapped around its base serves as a kind of shrine in the rear gallery, while the video installation "Infinite Tabernacle" captures a wax African-style figurine being blown apart (more precisely, by bullets).
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) will be sleeping well tonight after receiving a donation of nearly 3,000 quilts, a bequest of the collection of art scholar and renowned collector Eli Leon.
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Along one wall, the "work-clothes" quilts of Lucy Mingo and four other Gee's Benders reflect lives of hard labor and scrimping; their fabrics are almost exclusively blues and gray denim whose worn textures and faded colors are masterfully played off one another.
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They're moving relics of the bloody battles that stretched across the globe in the mid-18th to 19th centuries, from the Prussian and Napoleonic wars, when elaborate intarsia quilts featured pictorial inlays of soldiers, to the Crimean War with its dense geometries.
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Last week the rental clothing company, which has grown to 80 million members and an estimated $100 million in revenue, has announced a partnership with Williams-Sonoma's West Elm brand to allow subscribers to rent soft home decor, including quilts, blankets, shams and decorative pillows.
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Viewing work from Emory Douglas, the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party who created their iconic newsletter art to Faith Ringgold, who is known for her quilts but created a map labeled with the historical sites of prison riots, I was proud.
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Addressing longtime criticism that the popularity of the Gee's Bend quilts has not adequately benefited their makers, who are still living in the impoverished Alabama county, the foundation will direct future grants toward community improvements and the women there looking to sell their work.
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In that image, a clandestine organization of abolitionists—many of them Quaker or otherwise motivated by religious ideals—used covert methods (tunnels, trapdoors, concealed passageways) and secret signals (lanterns set in windows, quilts hung on laundry lines) to help convey enslaved African-Americans to freedom.
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In previous seasons, she dissected vintage quilts to make them into jackets; stripped old feather mattresses of their ticking (don't try it) to create a pair of trousers; built an entire collection around khadi, the hand-loomed cotton central to the creation of Gandhi's India.
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The quilts are a nod to some of the Western canon's greatest composers — Chopin, Bach — with names such as "Prelude in E" or "Fugue in C." Cushions have also been given the names usually meant to indicate instructions on a score ("crescendo" or "andante").
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Most of the older quilts were pieced by my great-grandmother and quilted by the women of her Lower Alabama farming community, including my mother and grandmother, but others were given to my great-grandfather in payment for his services as a country doctor.
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Many of the quilts, some on public view for the first time, come from Gero's collection, with loans from private collections and institutions like the Museum of Military History in Vienna and the International Quilt Study Center & Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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In one of their very first meetings, she is working on a quilt for the prison governor's daughter, and explains that there are three quilts every woman should make with her own hands before she's wed: The Tree of Paradise, The Flower Basket, and The Pandora's Box.
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Learn to play an instrument A study of older adults found that those who regularly took on new hobbies -- such as learning digital photography or making quilts -- scored better in memory tests after three months compared to those who did non-intellectual or low cognitive engagement activities.
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The show includes several Pomo baskets from the university's museum of anthropology and turned-wood bowls by Bob Stockdale from the Oakland Museum of California, along with the improvisational quilts of Rosie Lee Tompkins (1936-2006), from Oakland, one of this country's least-known great artists.
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Not only are many of their patterns and objects — from blown-glass lighting to quilts and cushions — reminiscent of the workshops' output, but a similar energy infuses the group's studio near the Brooklyn Navy Yard, with corners sometimes set aside for fabric design and block printing.
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There were the quilts, which hung an inch or two away from the blank gallery walls, seeming to float, looking in almost every sense—give or take a neon brushstroke or an angular, clashing new pattern—like exalted versions of ordinary blankets, ready for someone's bed.
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Much More Than a Hobby: Colorado Woman's Handcrafted Quilts Help Calm People With Alzheimer's "One of the hardest things about this is that I was just getting to the point of understanding her as a person — I had only known her as my mother," she says.
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"Elevator Pad Gown" (2005) features a comical, floor-length skirt that appears to have been assembled from pieces of gray, blue and silver movers quilts; in fact, the fabrics are made of silk and lamb's wool, conflations of high and low and the authentic and the fake.
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The quilts, which the painter began making in 1980 — inspired by Tibetan thangkas, her seamstress and designer mother and her great-great-great-grandmother, who quilted as a slave — combine painted canvas, fabric piecework and handwritten text to reclaim unexplored corners of African-American life and history.
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As the new chief creative officer of Calvin Klein, the Belgian designer Raf Simons has already shared his vision of American clothes, which includes joyous (everyone says "Raf" is pronounced like "laugh") references to cowboys, prairie quilts, American flags and 1950s plastic-covered couches, to extraordinary acclaim.
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Over the years, she's redone most of the rooms a handful of times, playing with embellishment and pattern ("At one point, it all became very chintzy and braided," she says), but her penchant for French furniture, antique quilts and small-scale, pale-colored florals has never wavered.
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But, lesser known is that, starting in the early '70s, Eshkol (who was also the daughter of Israel's third prime minister, Levi Eshkol) made what she called "wall carpets," joyful textile collages and abstract quilts that she sewed with the help of her dancers out of discarded fabric.
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"In terms of traditional Amish crafts, quilts are a huge draw to the area," said the Pennsylvania Dutch County communications manager, Joel Cliff, who says nearly 9 million people come to Lancaster, Pa., annually, in large part because of the crafting traditions; there are around 22 quilting stores.
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The sheer amount of images in every movie she makes is a testament not only to the work that filmmaking requires, but the labor power lurking inside every commodity within our grasp, from the scraps of paper we discard to the heirloom quilts we pass down through our families.
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One way he does this, formally, is in repurposing antique quilts, which were signposts used on the Underground Railroad and have been central more recently in Southern African-American collectives like Gee's Bend, whose work, for many, created a link between African textile patterns and modern European abstract painting.
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This is the Old Glory Underwear Audit: the artist and her collaborators will sew all the submissions into a series of "Cunt Quilts," which she plans to continue assembling on a quarterly basis for at least four years, or until a woman is elected to the country's highest office.
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For the past three years, however, artist Gina Adams has been at work on a slower, softer form of protest: by sewing select text from the American Indian Treaties onto antique quilts, she's articulated the deception and violence used to marginalize Native Americans in the formation of the United States.
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AFAM received a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) in January of 2017 to digitize the New York Quilt Project and add its records to the Quilt Index, a joint project of the Alliance for American Quilts, Michigan State University, and the Michigan State University Museum.
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Now 27, Bode's Lower East Side workroom is filled with everything from 19th- and 20th-century quilts (including several Victorian ones with intricate threading) to handwoven African textiles, from old stock from dish towel companies to grain sacks, and abstract floral fabrics that she created with a couple in India.
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Some of the art is cobbled together from found materials or objects, most notably her signature wall pieces, called "Blockers": little wood blocks, individually covered with paint, fabric, paper or wallpaper, and arranged into grids, which evoke projects ranging from quilts to scrapbooks to works by Piet Mondrian and Joseph Cornell.
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Almost 3,000 quilts by African-American artists — including more than 500 by Rosie Lee Tompkins, a quilt maker whose formally inventive work has helped elevate the standing of the discipline in the art world — are heading to the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive as a bequest by Eli Leon.
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The offerings he cited ran the proverbial gamut from Thom Browne's intellectualized homage to that humble preppy staple, seersucker (which the designer rendered in the form of little boy shorts sets, skirts worn with codpieces and voluminous trousers with panniers at the hip), to Emily Bode's poetic handmade garments patched from vintage quilts.
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Heft has helped create 670 quilts that have been distributed to local non-profits, dozens of dresses for underprivileged little girls in Haiti after a massive earthquake rattled the island in 2010, and most recently, over 60 dresses for little girls in Puerto Rico, following the death and destruction Hurricane Maria caused last September.
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She has also gone on to write a research paper, "What the Eye Doesn't See, Doesn't Move the Heart: Migrant Quilts of Southern Arizona," presented in 2016 at the annual seminar of the American Quilt Study Group, in Tempe, Arizona, and published in AQSG's annual journal of its seminar papers, Uncoverings, in the same year.
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His collages can be jarringly rhythmic and abstract in such works as "Ancient Alphabets" (1990) and "Festival Bahia" (1985), accessing memories of his mother's quilts and Bahia bands (aka fitas or bonfirm ribbons), or they can be figurative images derived from mass media, as in his masterful "Sweet Music – Homage to Dizzy Gillespie" (1978).
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It's not just the religious iconography the local artist laces through his work or the placement of his largest piece, "Birth of a Nation" (210), as a commanding centerpiece to anchor the smaller, narrative quilts chronicling the private life and fabled rebellion of slave insurgent Nat Turner (much like the Stations of the Cross in a church).
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Stored in its subterranean morgue (along with quilts made by the African-American sharecropper Susana Allen Hunter and countless other treasures) are its own Diors, Balenciagas and other couture items owned by Elizabeth Parke Firestone, of the tire family, exhibited here in 2005, as well as an example of the short-lived bridge line of the pilot Amelia Earhart.
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Fingers crossed, because, after all, "Vietnam gave us Apocalypse Now," the "Reagan '80s [brought us] the AIDS quilt," and "antipathy to George W Bush … inspired some of Eminem's best work," and if the human race survives long enough, our grandchildren might enjoy watching VR action movies about World War III and looking at quilts inspired by mass deportations.
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Among the exhibitions Ms. Hollander was curator for were "Harry Lieberman: A Journey of Remembrance" (23), "The Seduction of Light: Ammi Phillips/Mark Rothko Compositions in Pink, Green, and Red" (2008), "Compass: Folk Art in Four Directions" (2012, at the South Street Seaport Museum) and "War and Pieced: The Annette Gero Collection of Quilts from Military Fabrics" (2017).
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From a rise in sustainably sourced pieces (vintage quilts and upcycled plastic art) to a continued focus on clean minimalism (Japanese-inspired accents and feng shui plant-filled rooms) and even modern farmhouse or prairie fare (rustic-chic and made from natural materials), the predicted home trends ahead are all buildable staples that radiate with reimagined intention.
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Sculptor, printmaker, installation artist, performer, quilt maker, storyteller, and jeweler Joyce J. Scott affirms the femininity of her forebears, giving them the finery they deserve, most notably in the installation "Harriet's Closet," which she describes as a "dream boudoir" for Harriet Tubman, the "inner sanctum of a great lady," with such items as quilts, shawls, hats, and beads.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Last year, the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland (AAQGO) — a group of about 80 women who meet monthly at senior centers amid sheafs of fabric and spools of colorful thread — embarked on an ambitious project: They would create narrative quilts that told the complex social, political, and cultural history of their California city.
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While the show is a tribute to Dr. Gero's leading scholarship, only slightly more than half of the quilts are from her collection; the remainder come from collections in London, Vienna and New York, and also the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, which is a collaborator with the American Folk Art Museum.
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In addition to her painted wood constructions, put together from scraps, and her woolen tapestries, which she makes in collaboration with the Zapotec weaver, Licha Gonzalez Ruiz, Clippinger is showing two handmade quilts and a group of ceramic wall reliefs that she made in the summer of 2018, while in residence at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
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The non-virtual objects in Open World include yarn console controllers by Nathan Vincent; brilliant fiber works by Krista Hoefle that translate the bit-forms of early arcade games into the geometric construction of quilts; and teeth-grindingly detailed ballpoint pen drawings on paper by Butt Johnson that illustrate game worlds, architecture, controller devices, and characters in epic high fantasy detail.
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In fact, many of the pieces on view seem to feel right at home alongside better-known, canonical works of modern and contemporary art, considering, for example, the formal affinities between the Gee's Bend quilts and modernist geometric abstraction, or the Souls Grown Deep artists' inventive handling of found materials in ways that seem to parallel (or unwittingly presage) quite a few modernist or postmodernist gestures.
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The same is true of Eric N. Mack's gorgeous free-hanging fabric piece titled "Proposition: for wet Gee's Bend Quilts to replace the American flag — Permanently," and his painting-and-text shout-out to the African-American artist Alvin Baltrop (1948-5703), who, in the 1970s, photographed the gay "sex piers" that once lined the Hudson River across from where the Whitney now stands.
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Rent the Runway was originally conceived as a solution for women who didn't want to invest in gowns and cocktail dresses that they might only use once, but has since expanded to offer a subscription service for everyday professional wear, Indian formal wear, and even a partnership with West Elm that allows subscribers to rent pillows, throws and quilts for their homes and apartments.
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