Ubuntutu update

Greeting All, 
Here is another update reguarding Unbuntutu: Life Legacies of Love and Action now at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.  Thank you again Aleia Brown for your hard work in pulling this amazing exhibit together.

A quite day...

Greetings All,
It's been a very quite day here and I've spent most of it creating a new website between a bit of cooking.  I am so very thankful for the ability to be able to do this, and I am grateful to have celebrated a birthday this week also.  For a moment I tried to have a pity party, but that didn't last long after talking with my children to whom I am very grateful for and that brought me back around.  I hope/pray that you all have had a great/safe day and do have a wonderful weekend.  Shop Small Business, and much love to you all.   http://handworksbytrishwilliams.weebly.com

Latest creation...

Greetings All,
Here is a tease of a new work that I am creating and I am just in love with the colors, the fabrics, and the theme. Women of Color Quilters Network member on the move.

Enjoy and there is more to come.

Quilt - V of The Lynch Quilt Project

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I've been working on Quilt-V of  The Lynch Quilt Project and let me tell you this has been a learning experience like no other for me.  

"The Lynch Quilts Project is a community based effort, which examines the history and ramifications of racial violence in the United States of America through the textile tradition of quilting. Join us in weaving a new future towards social justice - past and present".

 LaShawnda  Crowe Storm

Quilt IV: Failed State

This quilt explores the paradox of theory vs. reality in terms of the politics and ideological framework concerning the larger context in which lynching and racial/ethnic violence began and continues to exist in America.

I tried quilting this quilt on a long-arm machine and caught all type of problems.  I got help from someone who had quilted several quilts on this machine and she too caught all types of problems.  This went on for days until the point that I had to take  the quilt home and remove everything that I had done.  I took a break for the quilt for a couple of days and then returned and finished the quilting and for that I am grateful.  

NMAAH

Greetings All,

I learned that these three items that I created for the NMAAH gift shop sold on opening day.  I am so very grateful to Dr Carolyn L. Mazloomi, WCQN, and the Smithsonian for this opportunity.

Ubuntutu update

Greetings All,

This arrived in the mail and I am so very honored to be included in this moment in time, in history, and in such a great cloud of witnesses.  Thank you Aleia Brown, thank you WCQN, and thank you Bishop Desmond and Leah Tutu for being the warriors that you are.

Collaboration-Gate Keeper of the North.

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I have been gifted a piece and I have decided to create a new collaboration series.  Below is the piece that was on it's way to the trash bin so I was told and I have cut in to 4 sections and appliqued figures onto them, canvas wrapped them, and embellished with keys, cowrie shells, and buttons.

Below is the Gate Keeper of the North (8 x 10).