EXHIBITION: Patterns in Abstraction: Black Quilts from the High’s Collection
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, through January 5, 2025
This exhibition brings together Black quilts from the High’s collection to answer a larger question: “How can quilts made by Black women change the way we tell the history of abstract art?”
EXHIBITION: Gee's Bend Quilts from the Collection
Philadelphia Museum of Art through July 7, 2024
The 13 quilts on view were acquired in 2017 through the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and were selected to tell the history of quilt-making in Gee's Bend (Alabama) from the mid-1920s to 2005.
EXHIBITION: The Irreplaceable Human
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, through April 1, 2024.
Featuring quilts by Louisiana Bendolph, Minder Coleman, Martha Pettway, Martha Jane Pettway, and Irene Williams.
EXHIBITION: Threaded: Textile Works by Contemporary Black Women Artists
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art through May 24, 2024.
Featuring quilts by Louisiana Bendolph, Mary Lee, Bendolph, Polly Bennett, Willie Ann Benning, Flora Moore, Ruth Pettway Mosely, Loretta Pettway, and Bettie Bendolph Seltzer.
EXHIBITION: Assembly: Contemporary Gee’s Bend Quilts
Birmingham Public Library through February 24, 2024.
This exhibition features 30 quilts dating from 1975 to 2023 by 23 contemporary Gee's Bend artists who continue that tradition.
The Quilters of Gee’s Bend Just Collaborated With Target
Read more at The Strategist.
As part of its celebration of Black History Month, Target has released a small collection of bedding, apparel, and stationery designed by the legendary quilters of Gee’s Bend, Alabama.
The Iconic Quilt Designs of Gee's Bend, Alabama, Are Now Available on Furniture
Read more at Veranda.
Creations from the celebrated quilters of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, are now being featured on a new line of upholstered furniture. The line features digitally reproduced artwork of five quilts from the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s collection in partnership with home décor company Cloth & Company.