past exhibition
Gee’s Bend Quilts
On view through April 2
The Currier Museum of Art recently acquired five Gee’s Bend quilts through the generous gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and purchase.
In a small, Black community just south of Selma, Alabama, several generations of women collectively developed a distinctive style of quilt making. The place is known as Gee’s Bend, after an angle in the Alabama River where a cotton plantation was once located. This shared practice began before the emancipation of Black people in the 19th century and continues to this day. Gee’s Bend quiltmakers recycled work clothes and other fabric remnants to create functional bed coverings adorned with abstract, geometric designs.
This gallery features contemporary works of art, including Faith Ringgold’s response to quilting tradition.
Support by Thomas Silvia and Shannon Chandley.
Support by:
Geraldine Westbrook (1919-2016)
“Housetop” variation, around 1965
cotton, double knit, polyester, 81 x 74 in.
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past exhibitions
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Artists working in all media participate in the AIR program, which has three main components: 1) an open call to support emerging artists making socially engaged art; 2) an invitational through which artists are selected to develop special projects, commissions, or exhibitions; and 3) artist-led, community-centered public art projects in the city of Nashua, NH.
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