The Quilts of Gee’s Bend

Because the early nineteenth century, the ladies of Gee’s Bend in southern Alabama have created gorgeous, vibrant quilts. In the one photo-essay e-book concerning the quilts of Gee’s Bend for kids, award-winning creator Susan Goldman Rubin explores the historical past and tradition of this fascinating group of ladies and their distinctive quilting traditions. Rubin makes use of meticulous analysis to supply an unique take a look at an essential side of African American artwork and tradition.

 

Within the rural neighborhood of Gee’s Bend, African American girls have been making quilts for generations. They use scraps of outdated overalls, aprons, and bleached cornmeal sacks—something they will discover. Their traditions have been handed down via the a long time. A lot to the ladies’s shock, a number of the quilts was featured in an exhibition on the Museum of Superb Arts, Houston, in 2002. The exhibition then traveled to the Whitney Museum in New York Metropolis. “Eye-poppingly beautiful,” wrote a critic for the
New York Instances concerning the exhibition. He continued, “A number of the most miraculous works of recent artwork America has produced.” The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork will exhibit its newly acquired assortment of Gee’s Bend quilts in 2017.

 

Rubin is thought for producing well-researched, extremely praised, and complicated biographies of artists and different essential figures. Via related analysis,
The Quilts of Gee’s Bend shares specifics about this uncommon neighborhood and its wealthy traditions, permitting youngsters to pause to contemplate historical past via the eyes of the individuals who lived it and thru a legacy that’s handed on to the following technology.

 

This e-book must be of nice curiosity to lecture rooms, libraries, and people desirous about African American artwork in the USA, along with quilting, life in early emancipated colonies within the South, and Gee’s Bends significance within the Civil Proper’s motion. The quilts and the unbelievable tales behind them are highly effective motivators for anybody who needs to perform something. A map, instructions on easy methods to make a quilt sq., endnotes, and an index spherical out this gorgeous nonfiction e-book.