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In All Abstracts, Uncoverings 2016

Uncoverings 2016
Mary Catherine Lamb: Lady of Perpetual Garage Sales

By: Susan A. D. Stanley

In her lifetime, Mary Catherine Lamb (1949−2009) completed nineteen quilts, most of them vivid, eccentric portraits of saints, angels, and demonic creatures. Long separated from the faith of her childhood, Lamb believed that her combination of Catholic subjects and vintage textiles and oddments both honored and affectionately skewered her devout upbringing. Scholars speculate that the “disquieting edginess” and “saucy insouciance” of her work influenced the Studio Art Quilt establishment to keep Lamb at arm’s length.

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In All Abstracts, Uncoverings 2016

Uncoverings 2016
Protofeminst Thought in Mid-Twentieth-Century Magazine Articles

By: Colleen R. Hall-Patton

Like other art forms, quilting is a microcosm of its surrounding society. Thus, quilting is a possible place to find seeds of the women’s movement and active resistance to consumption. From the 1940s to the early 1970s, quilts slowly underwent a change in status in magazine articles from being understood as antiques and functional bedcoverings to being recognized as art forms worthy of exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York City.

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In All Abstracts, Uncoverings 2016

Uncoverings 2016
The Godey Quilt: One Woman’s Dream Becomes a Reality

By: Sandra Staebell

The Godey Quilt is a 1930s appliqué quilt composed of fifteen fabric portraits of men and women clothed in fashionable mid-nineteenth century attire. The dream of Mildred Potter Lissauer (1897−1998) of Louisville, Kentucky, this textile is a largely original design that is not representative of the majority of American quilts made during the early 1930s. Notable for the beauty and quality of its workmanship, the quilt’s crafting was,

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In All Abstracts, Uncoverings 2016

Uncoverings 2016
Why Ernest Haight Made Quilts

By: Jonathan Gregory

In 1934, following a decade of personal losses and financial reversal, Ernest B. Haight (1899−1992) began quiltmaking, which he continued for the remainder of his productive years. As one who by nature and training focused on the process of making things as well as the aesthetics of what he made, Haight developed sew-then-cut and machine quilting approaches that increased the accuracy and efficiency of his quiltmaking. Quiltmaking fed his soul by providing a creative and practical activity that also satisfied his need for intellectual challenge,

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In All Abstracts, Uncoverings 2016

Uncoverings 2016
Memorials of Satin: Funeral Ribbon Quilts in Context

By: Diana Bell-Kite

Gathering satin acetate florist ribbons from the gravesides of deceased loved ones and stitching them into quilts was widespread among working-class Southerners—black and white—from the mid-1940s through the early 1970s. Scholars have noted this unique form of commemorative quilting in passing, but have yet to examine the tradition’s regionalism, its limited lifespan, and its relationship to wider trends in mid-twentieth century American society. Analyzing twenty-eight such quilts from eight states,

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In All Abstracts, Uncoverings 2016

Uncoverings 2016
What the Eye Doesn’t See, Doesn’t Move the Heart: Migrant Quilts of Southern Arizona

By: Peggy J. Hazard
Illegal immigration has become a humanitarian crisis on both sides of the Atlantic. One fact often left out of the conversation about migration to the United States from Mexico is that thousands of undocumented—and frequently unidentified—men, women and children have died in the Southern Arizona deserts since the imposition of trade and border policies in the 1990s. The Migrant Quilt Project is a grassroots effort in Tucson, Arizona,

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