STURDY TRADITIONS with Jess Bailey
In this episode, art historian-and-quilter Jess Bailey and I discuss:
why representation and visibility is so important in the quilting community
the power of a gifted quilt
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