“As an artist, I strongly believe art has the capacity to touch the spirit, engage, educate, and heal in ways that words alone cannot.” Carolyn L. Mazloomi "Quilt scholarship remains in its infancy, and many new theories are being developed and tested. As more professional historians and art scholars begin to look at quilts seriously, a clearer understanding of their enormous importance to the story of American life, social history, and artistic achievement is emerging." Quilts: A Living Tradition, 1992 - Robert Shaw, curator of Shelburne Museum curator from 1981 to 1994 To Those Who Have Travelled This Road Together and To Those Who Continue to Travel Their Road... Thank you for your Art and Scholarship!  In Memory of and Gratitude To... Dr. Gladys-Marie Fry, Dr. Raymond Dobard, Eli Leon, Cuesta Benberry... Dr. Gladys-Marie Fry (1931 - 2015) - Obituary - Washington Post, and Obituary by Marilyn White, Journal of American Folklore, Volume 130, Number 518, Fall 2017, pp. 473-474. Asante Quilt made for Dr. Fry by the African American Quilt Circle - Placed in The National Museum of African American History & Culture, Washington, D.C. Dr. Raymond Dobard (1947 - 2019) Obituary - Times Picayune Eli Leon (1936 - 2018) Obituary - New York Times Cuesta Benberry (1924 - 2007) Obituary - New York Times, Washington Post

Sources and Bibliographies

• Threads of Scholarship: History and Storytelling in African American Quilts: Exhibit Sources and Artifacts
  
  
• Always There: The African American Presence in American Quilts - Encyclopedia Smithsonian
  
  
• Artist’s Quilts Pay Tribute to African-American Women - Smithsonian article
  
• Carolyn Mazloomi - Exhibitions and Women of Color Quilters Network
  
  
• Quilts and Quilt Making in America 1978-1996
  From the American Folklife Center. Library of Congress. Includes a selected bibliography.
  
  
• Threads of Scholarship -"Art Follows Politics" -
  Exhibit and Symposium featured in the Library Update,
  Fall 2001, p.3.  

Exhibitions and Stories

• In Canaan, Quilts Depict African-American Lives and History (New Hamphire Exhibit - 2017)
  
  
• Paying Homage:Celebrating the Diversity of Men in Quilts - 2018 Exhibit
  
  
• Myrtle Beach - Myrtle Beach - Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum
  
  
• National African American Quilt Convention (Lawrence, Kansas, 2018)
  
  
• Quilts With A Sense of Place - Stitched in Oakland - (Oakland, CA, 2016) New York Times Article
  
  
  
  

  Quotations and Recent Scholarship (in progress)

   

   

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  This page and Symposium Page <https://www.albany.edu/~dlafonde/women/may32001.htm> was created by Deborah LaFond, Social Sciences Bibliographer, and Lou Ann Stewart, Reference Librarian, University Libraries, University at Albany. Last update May 4, 2001. Additions in Progress - January, 2019 Memorials, Exhibitions, Quotations and Recent Scholarship
  

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