STURDY TRADITIONS with Jess Bailey

 

In this episode, art historian-and-quilter Jess Bailey and I discuss:

  1. why representation and visibility is so important in the quilting community

  2. the power of a gifted quilt

  3. and how to start a quilting practice even if you don’t come from a long line of quilters


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HELPFUL LINKS ♡

historic New Deal quilting bee photos

⤷ Anna's mother Ruth Higham's book, The Edge of the Land

⤷ The quilt made by the last indigenous queen of Hawaii

Get a copy of Jess’s book Many Hands Make A Quilt: Short Histories of Radical Quilting in the US and in the UK

⤷ Listen to the oral history interview from the Quilt Alliance that Jess mentions

⤷ work by Kailani Polzak, researcher of visual constructions of race in 18th and 19th century Europe

⤷ Theme music: Roll Jordan Roll by the Joy Drops

 
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