Sentences with word «quiltmaker»

Many of the screens draw from 20th century abstract artists, such as Sophie Taeuber - Arp, David Bomberg and Anni Albers, in addition to applied artists such as quiltmakers Annie and Mary Lee Bendolph.

Participating artists include: Sarah Nishiura, Mie Kongo, James Kao, Hyde Park Art Center quiltmaking students, and other Chicago quiltmakers.

I mean, Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, some of the Gee's Bend quiltmakers, Joe Minter — that's kind of it.

About the Juror Aaron McIntosh is a fourth generation quiltmaker and cross-disciplinary artist whose work mines the intersections of material culture, family tradition, desire, and identity politics.

Now it recurs in the pieces like «Double Echo Wave,» «Wave Bias» and «Wave Hole,» forming concentric squares or diagonal stripes whose patchy colors suggest Frank Stella's early work rethought by the great quiltmaker Rosie Lee Tompkins.

Effie Mae Howard, an African American quiltmaker whose dynamic patchwork creations — made under the pseudonym Rosie Lee Tompkins — were critically acclaimed and compared to the best abstract painting, was found dead of unknown causes in her Richmond home on Dec. 1, according to her friend and quilt scholar Eli Leon.

Bendolph hails from a long line of storied quiltmakers from Gee's Bend, a small African - American community nestled along the Alabama River, known for its rich history of craftsmanship.

He shares with the quiltmakers of Gee's Bend a debt to African American aesthetic traditions, most notably the cemetery constructions and yard art of the rural South, as well as an inventive approach to the reconstruction of found materials in the creation of an extraordinary visual poetry.

Among the artists represented are Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, Mary T. Smith, Joe Minter, Nellie Mae Rowe, Purvis Young, Emmer Sewell, Ronald Lockett, Joe Light, and the quiltmakers of Gee's Bend.

«The Foundation's efforts will ensure the long - term survival of artworks by the more than 150 artists in their holdings, including works by Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, Ronald Lockett, the quiltmakers of Gee's Bend, Joe Minter, Nellie Mae Rowe, and many more.»

Not even the vogue term «outsider artist» fit the quiltmakers of Gee's Bend comfortably.

The traveling exhibition, which is not scheduled to come to the Bay Area, includes about 70 quilts by 40 quiltmakers, of whom 20 are still living.

My grandmother is a quiltmaker, and that was a big influence on early visual thinking.

Asheville, North Carolina About Blog Quilt Alliance (the Alliance for American Quilts) documents, preserves and shares the rich history of quilts and quiltmakers.