Visioning Human Rights in the New Millennium - update

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Here's my contribution to the exhibit "Visioning Human Rights in the New Millennium" and I just got my copy of the catalog by the same name written by Dr. Carolyn L. Mazloomi.   My piece was created with commercial cotton, photo transfers, and fiberglass window screen.  This piece measures 50 by 50 and was machine pieced and machine quilted.  I am so very grateful to be included.

Yours for Race and Country: Reflection on the Life of Colonel Charles Young.

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The exhibition “Yours for Race and Country: Reflections on the Life of Colonel Charles Young” will open at the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center in historic Wilberforce, Ohio on March 16, 2019, curated by Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi. 

Col. Charles Young was born into slavery but went on the achieve greatness in the face of racism and oppression. Young was the first African American Colonel in the United States Army, leading the Buffalo Soldiers, a musician, composer, mapmaker, accomplished linguist, first African American Superintendent for the National Park Service and a scholar. Col. Young was a proud member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and took seriously his role as a mentor to his young brothers. The annals of American history are filled with the names of our nation's greatest heroes, yet the name Charles Young is known by remarkably few Americans.

Through the exhibit, Yours for Race and Country: Reflections on the Life of Colonel Charles Young, viewers will experience both the quilts and African American history as avenues toward an expanded understanding of African American culture, exemplary in the life of Col. Charles Young. The exhibition serves to elevate the discussion of those who experience racially charged opposition as citizens, yet triumph to remind America of its promise. The exhibition will tour a select number of museums.  I am so very grateful to be included one more time.  *Quilt made by Sandra Scott, Cambridge, England

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Visioning Human Rights in the New Millennium: Quilting the World’s Conscience- update.

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Coming February 28, 2019, hot off the presses "Visioning Human Rights in the New Millennium: Quilting the World’s Conscience" by Dr. Carolyn L.  Mazloomi.

A powerful way to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, this book reminds us of its impact and each of its 30 principles, using intriguing art quilts. Sometimes taking us by surprise, the 75 textile artists visualize the global struggle for human rights with their interpretations of the Declaration, ratified in 1948, which represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are innately entitled. The 91 works’ themes include the first recorded initiation of human rights in Persia in 539 BCE, the plight of child soldiers and child brides, unlawful incarceration, the right to privacy, fair labor practices, torture, and the right of all world citizens to food, education, shelter, and healthcare. Together with the text of each Rights Declaration article, a message from the artist explains each quilt’s inspiration and meaning.  #WCQN  #FiberArtistTrishWilliams

And Still We Rise - update

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ASWR opens September  1 – October 14, 2018, at Two Concurrent Locations: Mariposa Museum & World Culture Center in Peterborough, NH and Canaan Street Meetinghouse in Canaan, NH.  Women Of Color Quilters Network is still on the move.  The more things change, the more some things stay the same lest we forget.  

Human Rights in the New Millennium: Quilting the World's Conscience.

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Coming next month and be on the lookout for Human Rights in the New Millennium: Quilting the Worlds's Conscience.  Opening August 17th at the Fitton Center for the Arts in Hamilton, OH. Women of Color Quilters Network on the move and I am glad to be included one more time thanks to Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi curator, historian, author, and shero.  A catalog will be published later this year. 

Commemorating His Purple Reign: A Textural Tribute to Prince

March 15 - June 17, 2018

This special exhibition celebrates the life and art of Prince through vibrant and exciting fiber art.  "These quilts are pulsating, vibrating, and alive with Prince's music," says Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi, one of the nation's experts in African American quilting and juror for this exhibit.  My contribution to this exhibit is "Paisley Park Under a Cherry Moon".

ASWR final exhibit.

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This week will be the opening of "And Still We Rise" Oct 6 - Dec 30, 2017 at the Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA.  This would not have been possible without the hard work and determination of Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi a "Shero" of the culture.  I am grateful to be included and to be a member of WCQN.  This has been an amazing journey.

Major donation via Dr Carolyn L. Mazloomi

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Here's a quote from , Dr. Aleia Brown "While the work in the Carolyn L. Mazloomi- Women of Color Quilters Networkis invaluable for its contributions to women's studies and Black history and culture, it is still important that we have documentation that the collection has been appraised at over $500,000. Thank you Dr.Mazloomi for your generous donation to the Michigan State University Museum!

My dissertation and book project is largely based on the work and the women who contributed their work to this collection. Thank you Ed Johnetta Miller, Peggie Hartwell, April Anue, Dindga McCannon, Dorothy Burge, Trish Williams, Marion Coleman, Carole Staples, Bisa Butler, Deborah Fell, Peggy Lucas, Latifah Shakir, Lauren Austin, Sylvia Hernandez, Sheila A White, Deborah Fell. Please share widely, and especially with other Network members".   For more info check out the link here: http://museum.msu.edu/?q=node%2F308

Dizzy - 2003 by Dr Carolyn Mazloomi

ASWR update

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Sun May 21, 2017 1:30 pm at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi, founder of the Women of Color Quilters Network and curator of the exhibit And Still We Rise: Race, Culture and Visual Conversations, will speak about African American history and its depiction in story quilts. She is recognized as an authority on African American quilts, has authored several books, and is a very sought-after exhibit curator. Her exhibit, which will be at the museum through June 4, 2017, opened at the National Underground Railroad Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 2013. The exhibition will travel the United States through the end of this year.

Ubuntutu - update

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Here's an update on "Ubuntutu"  the exhibition has been extended. The show will now go to the Potchefstroom Museum in Potchefstroom, South Africa, and end at Art Scape (the venue where the Desmond Tutu Annual Peace Lecture will be held in Cape Town, South Africa in October). What a blessing to be included. — in Potchefstroom.

ASWR update.

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Here's an update on And Still We Rise at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum.  Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi, the founder of the Women of Color Quilters Network and curator of ‘And Still We Rise’, will be speaking about the exhibit on May 21st at 1:30 p.m. The program is free, and no registration is necessary. Seating will be on a first come, first serve bas

Wrongfully Convicted

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I was  asked by my daughter to create a piece that focus was the "wrongfully convicted".  I chose to do a collage of paper and fiberglass window screen.  It is simple, but yet powerful I hope.

ASWR update

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And Still We Rise a WCQN exhibit opens today at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum (Kalamazoo, MI).  This exhibit runs 1/21/2017- 6/04/2017 so you will have 6 months to see it.  This is a must see exhibit curated by Dr. Carolyn L. Mazloomi.

P.I.E.C.E.S. 2017

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Coming January 2017 three venues.

P.I.E.C.E.S. 2017

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Coming 2017 two months.

P.I.E.C.E.S. 2017

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Coming January 2017 one artist.                            

1+2+3=1 A Solo Exhibition.

Ubuntutu update

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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.

NMAAH

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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

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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.