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SF Quilt Guild - Eli Leon
Eli Leon has been studying, exhibiting and writing about improvisational African-American quilts for the past 25 years. A 1989 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship allowed him to expand his research from his home base in Oakland, CA to east Texas, southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana - the geographical area from which most of his […]
The Architecture of the Quilt
Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt - What a great gift, for yourself or for a dear quilting friend! In 2002, Gee’s Bend burst into international prominence through the success of Tinwood’s Quilts of Gee’s Bend exhibition and book, which revealed an important and previously invisible art tradition from the African American South. Critics […]
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