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who acquired 6,000 acres of land and established a cotton plantation in 1816 with seventeen enslaved people. The Gee family operated the plantation until 1845, when, to settle significant debts, they relinquished ownership, including 98 enslaved people, to Mark H. Pettway, a relative, enslaver, and
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began a process of transferring artworks from its collection into the permanent collections of museums worldwide, with the goal of diversifying museum collections and securing the place of Black artists from the
American South in American art history. As of May 2024, Geeās Bend quilts are in the
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brought his civil rights campaign to Geeās Bend. At the time, no
African-American had ever successfully registered to vote in Wilcox County, despite comprising nearly 80% of the population. Many quiltmakers in Geeās Bend braved the threat of violence to march with King in Camden in March 1965,
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merchant who had been advancing credit to more than 60 families in the Bend died. When his estate foreclosed on their debts and raided Geeās Bend for anything of value, including livestock, farm equipment, and stored food, the impoverished community was driven into complete destitution.
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individual artistic paths (ātheir wayā) to stitch unexpected patterns, shapes, and colors. The transference of aesthetic knowledge and skills from generation to generation has been fundamental to the Geeās Bend quilting tradition for centuries.
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low-interest government loans. Through federal intervention, the residents of Geeās Bend therefore became landowners of the land worked by their enslaved forebears. Cultural traditions like quilt making were nourished by these continuities.
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federal agency which aimed to alleviate rural poverty. In 1937, the federal government pieced together and purchased the former
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America has produced,ā the quilts were displayed at 11 other museums nationwide. Since this first exhibition, Geeās Bend quilts have been exhibited in museums worldwide.
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History Refused to Die: Highlights from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gift
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Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American South
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We Will Walk ā Art and Resistance in the American South
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546:. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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681:"ART REVIEW; Jazzy Geometry, Cool Quilters"
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536:Geeās Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt.
1329:Stitchin' and Pullin': A Gee's Bend Quilt
1252:Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt
993:Press, The Associated (August 26, 2008).
574:. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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2330:San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
2305:Museum of the American Quilter's Society
1896:Stichin' and Pullin': A Gee's Bend Quilt
746:Beardsley, John (2002). "River Island".
679:Kimmelman, Michael (November 29, 2002).
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1469:Marvar, Alexandra (October 29, 2018).
1184:Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts
1080:Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts
748:Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts
1427:"The Quilts of Gee's Bend in Context"
1269:Herman, Brandon L. (April 16, 2015).
1136:. University of Massachusetts Press.
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486:Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
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815:Haberman, Clyde (March 9, 2015).
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1254:. Atlanta: Tinwood Books. 2006.
1103:Lampkins-Fielder, Raina (2023).
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959:Dewan, Shaila (July 29, 2007).
913:. University of Alabama Press.
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250:National Endowment for the Arts
594:Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
515:Art Gallery of New South Wales
397:Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
317:The Metropolitan Museum of Art
201:Whitney Museum of American Art
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773:Documenting America 1935-1943
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232:In 2015, Gee's Bend quilters
1471:"Can You Copyright a Quilt?"
1441:Craft in America, Season 6,
510:National Gallery of Victoria
422:Minneapolis Institute of Art
402:Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
347:Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
246:National Heritage Fellowship
135:Farm Security Administration
2174:Underground Railroad quilts
1975:Layered textiles and quilts
1874:Souls Grown Deep Foundation
1275:The Journal of Modern Craft
342:Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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1487:"The Quilts of Gee's Bend"
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372:Indianapolis Museum of Art
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1331:. New York: Random House.
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1107:. Royal Academy of Arts.
528:The Quilts of Gee's Bend.
478:Hampton University Museum
332:New Orleans Museum of Art
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2295:Great Lakes Quilt Center
1867:Collecting organizations
1450:"Gee's Bend Quiltmakers"
1287:10.2752/174967809X416233
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1155:The Quilts of Gee's Bend
911:The Freedom Quilting Bee
909:Callahan, Nancy (1987).
558:The Quilts of Geeās Bend
412:Birmingham Museum of Art
387:Equal Justice Initiative
1879:Torrey Quilt Collection
1777:Bettie Bendolph Seltzer
1762:Pearlie Kennedy Pettway
1597:Loretta Pettway Bennett
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590:The Irreplaceable Human
452:The Phillips Collection
427:The Contemporary Austin
352:Baltimore Museum of Art
327:Studio Museum in Harlem
181:Sears, Roebuck, and Co.
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1853:Freedom Quilting Bee
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417:Asheville Art Museum
357:Dallas Museum of Art
307:The National Gallery
191:Twenty-first century
173:Freedom Quilting Bee
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2190:AIDS Memorial Quilt
2151:History of quilting
1822:Estelle Witherspoon
1792:Geraldine Westbrook
1752:Martha Jane Pettway
1647:Nettie Jane Kennedy
1627:Rachel Carey George
1592:Linda Diane Bennett
1232:Museum Anthropology
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637:Estelle Witherspoon
596:, HumlebƦk, Denmark
120:In 1935, President
58:Gee's Bend, Alabama
2242:Mary Cozens-Walker
2196:Quilt of Belonging
2080:Foundation piecing
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1901:Patricia McKissack
1812:Patty Ann Williams
1807:Nell Hall Williams
1782:Sue Willie Seltzer
1757:Mensie Lee Pettway
1692:Annie Bell Pettway
1622:Minnie Sue Coleman
1567:Louisiana Bendolph
1437:on April 19, 2019.
1342:Anthropology Today
999:The New York Times
965:The New York Times
855:The New York Times
821:The New York Times
685:The New York Times
627:Sue Willie Seltzer
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407:High Museum of Art
362:Ackland Art Museum
337:Hood Museum of Art
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1552:Nellie Mae Abrams
1443:episode: INDUSTRY
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472:Henry Art Gallery
234:Mary Lee Bendolph
167:Mary Lee Bendolph
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