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Ties that Bind: Quilting at the Clarke Africana Library: Selected Books on Quilting

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  • Cover ArtAfrican American Quiltmaking in Michigan by Marsha L. MacDowell (Editor)
    Call Number: Africana Library NK9112 .A36 1997
    Essays by Marsha MacDowell, Darlene Clark Hine, Cuesta Benberry, and Bill Harris examine the history and meaning of quilting in individual artist's lives and within the contexts of community and family. Also included are excerpts of interviews with quilters Sarah Carolyn Reese, Ione Todd, Deonna Green, and Rosa Parks. In recent years, the study of quilts and quiltmaking has provided Americans with a new vehicle for understanding their past.
  • Cover ArtBlack Threads: An African American Quilting Sourcebook by Kyra E. Hicks; Cuesta R. Benberry (Foreword by)
    Call Number: Africana Library NK9112 .H53x 2003
    Some believe that recent studies of oral histories telling of the role quilting played in the Underground Railroad have inspired African Americans to take up their fabric and needles, but whatever the reason, quilters like Faith Ringgold, Clementine Hunter, Winnie McQueen, and many others are keeping the African American traditions of quilting alive.
  • Cover ArtBrown Sugar Stitchers Quilt Guild 20th Anniversary: Celebrating Soulful Expressions of Fiber Art by Elisa R. Woods & Aisha Lumumba
    Call Number: Africana Library TT835 B76 2020
    This book celebrates the Brown Sugar Stitchers Quilt Guild’s twenty years of using creative spirits through thread, needle, batting and fabric to acknowledge and support the author’s family, friends, community and personal creativity.
  • Cover ArtA Communion of the Spirits: African-American Quilters, Preservers, and Their Stories by Roland L. Freeman
    Call Number: Africana Library TT835 .F744 1996
    A Communion of the Spirits represents the first national survey of African-American quiltmakers. It is also a personal record of how Roland L. Freeman's life has intertwined with the world of quiltmaking for almost sixty years--"as an African-American male; as a child who was deeply influenced by the cultural traditions and magical powers of quilts; and, for more than three decades, as a photographer and folklorist.
  • Cover ArtCrafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters by Patricia A. Turner; Kyra E. Hicks
    Call Number: Africana Library TT835 .T797 2009
    In this book Patricia A. Turner explores the culture and recent history of African Americans through the creations and wisdom of nine quilters. Turner profiles quilters who exemplify the range of black women and men dedicated to the making of quilts, and she shows how their craftwork establishes order and meaning in their lives. The artisans comprise eight women and one man, ranging from teenagers to octogenarians, representing an array of education and income levels, and living across the United States, including Alaska.
  • Cover ArtHidden in Plain View: The Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad by Jacqueline L. Tobin; Raymond G. Dobard
    Call Number: Africana Library E450 .T63x 1999
    In 1993, author Jacqueline Tobin visited the Old Market Building in the historic district of Charleston, South Carolina, where local craftspeople sell their wares. Amid piles of beautiful handmade quilts, Tobin met African American quilter Ozella Williams and the two struck up a conversation. With the admonition to "write this down," Williams began to tell a fascinating story that had been handed down from her mother and grandmother before her.
  • Cover ArtQuilts of Gee's Bend by William Arnett; Alvia Wardlaw; Jane Livingston
    Call Number: Africana Library NK9112 .Q54x 2002
    Since the 19th century, the women of Gee's Bend in southern Alabama have created stunning, vibrant quilts. Beautifully illustrated with 110 color illustrations, The Quilts of Gee's Bend includes a historical overview of the two hundred years of extraordinary quilt-making in this African-American community, its people, and their art-making tradition. This book is being·released in conjunction with a national exhibition tour including The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, and theWhitney Museum of American Art.
  • Cover ArtDancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold's French Collection and Other Story Quilts by Dan Cameron (Contribution by, Editor); New Museum of Contemporary Art Staff; Akron Art Museum Staff; Ann Gibson (Contribution by); Thalia Gouma-Peterson (Contribution by); Patrick Hill (Contribution by); Richard J. Powell (Introduction by); Morra Roth (Contribution by); Michele Wallace (Contribution by)
    Call Number: Africana Library (on order)
    This catalog is the first book-length publication devoted to the exquisite story quilts of contemporary artist Faith Ringgold. Combining painted images, handwritten texts, and quilting techniques, Ringgold weaves together modernist painting; feminist critique; postmodernist strategies of appropriation, parody, and montage; and personal memoir in a remarkable synthesis that takes on European modernism, African American folk art, and the "black aesthetic" of the 1960s and 1970s.
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