A new exhibition celebrates the remarkable legacy of the master makers from a tiny Alabama hamlet who found worldwide fame two decades ago
. Their creators were an intergenerational community of African American women who, to this day, work in the tiny conurbation that was once a slave-owner’s plantation.
Sojourner Truth Parsons applies quilting methodology to buzzy paintings whose dancing, tumbling geometries in summer sky blue and tangerine recall Matisse’s cut-outs. “While she’s a painter, she’s been inspired by quilting in her own family traditions,” says Russell of the artist who has Mi’kmaq, African Canadian and settler heritage. “Quilting is instructive in how these artists expand what their visual plane can look like.
The Right to Life from 2017, by the Atlanta-based Dawn Williams Boyd, plays on quilts’ associations of domestic comfort and security, and their place in women’s lives. Its crowd scene foregrounds a careworn black mother whose arms protectively encircle her young family, while anti-abortion protesters wave banners and a pensive-looking white woman is escorted from her chauffeur-driven car.
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