{"id":4938,"date":"2013-07-16T19:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T19:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/?page_id=4938"},"modified":"2023-10-06T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T17:38:00","slug":"why-quilts-matter-history-art-politics-episode-5-image-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/resources\/image-resource-galleries\/why-quilts-matter-history-art-politics-episode-5-image-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Quilts Matter: History, Art & Politics \u2013 Image Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

Episode 5 \u2013 Gee’s Bend: “The Most Famous Quilts in America?”<\/h2>\n

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Gee\u2019s Bend Ferry sign.
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In 2002 the art world was rocked to its foundations by a group of unusual, abstract quilts made by African American women from an obscure hamlet in southern Alabama. People lined up around the block to see them, and the critic from The New York Times gushed as, for the first time, the quilt became the subject of a museum blockbuster. Join us as we trace the journey of the quilts of Gees Bend from the clotheslines of the South to the exhibition walls of the country\u2019s greatest museums. We\u2019ll explore the aesthetic and social appeal of these quilts\u2014and quilters\u2014as well as the controversies they engendered, and analyze their unique place in quilt history.<\/p>\n

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