Gee's Bend Quilting Workshop
Objective: The final required course for a BFA in Graphic Design. Students propose a direction for their work / research following specific guidelines. Students will work both independently and cooperatively with both the committee and their classmates, concentrating on completing a cohesive body of work for the semester.
Concept: I proposed to create a cohesive design for the Gee’s Bend Quilting Workshop. The women of Gee’s Bend—a small, remote, black community in Alabama—have created hundreds of quilt masterpieces dating from the early twentieth century to the present. Enlivened by a visual imagination that extends the expressive boundaries of the quilt genre, these astounding creations constitute a crucial chapter in the history of African American art with quilts composed boldly and improvisationally, in geometries that transform recycled work clothes and dresses, feed sacks, and fabric remnants. The women of Gee’s Bend have passed down quilting within their community and have taught workshops outside of Gee’s Bend. The Gee’s Bend Quilting Workshop is a unique opportunity, as it will be the first quilting workshop to be taught at Gee’s Bend. Attendees will have a chance to learn from these women and be inspired by the community in Gee’s Bend.
Selected as a 2018 Adobe Design Achievement Awards Semifinalist
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