Articles tagged with 'quilting' — 9 found
Visiting the AIDS Memorial Quilt
The squares are bigger than you could even imagine. They command the room, the space. What a powerful source of memory, of honoring those who we have lost to AIDS. As I have written about a few times already , I have been exploring the many squares on the AIDS Memorial Quilt, and have been remembering [...]
January 23rd, 2012A “plan” for 2012
2012 Goals Find a full-time job. A real one, with a salary, in an urban area, and most importantly, in my field. Graduate with my Master’s in Heritage Preservation (on track for May). Requisite fitness goal: will exercise on a more regular basis, and cross train rather than just get on a cardio machine and [...]
January 3rd, 2012Single Girl quilt face, done
Me excited to see the quilt in baby-size, 4 complete circles. At this point I had 12 left to combine. This fall I took my first quilt class, at Whipstitch Fabrics in Atlanta, because I wanted to tackle a quilt design based in circular design. In particular, I had long coveted Denyse Schmidt’s Single Girl [...]
December 11th, 2011Weekend in Pictures
Friday Completed Christmas-themed exhibit case we composed at the Archives, using 1950s photographs of Christmas decorations (TVA-documented) and old newspaper clippings, photos, and WWI draft cards featuring the names of reindeer (Blitzen, Rudolph, etc.) and other holiday-themed names (Chris Kringle, Santy Claus, Partridge and Peartree). Single Girl quilt: Home from work, I needed to see [...]
December 5th, 2011“To be off balance but still under control”
Or: too many ideas, a creative explosion, stunning color palettes, African strip quilts, and me Sources of vast inspiration Sometimes, work and play intersect, overlap, combine. For this week’s material culture class, we read four selections, chapters and articles, on design and aesthetic. One of the pieces was a chapter from John M. Vlach’s book [...]
September 23rd, 2011“Art was not separate from everyday experience.”
The face jug is a staple motif in southern folk pottery, portraying the humorous "aesthetic of the ugly." I spent over two hours of pure joy and pleasure this weekend drinking in an exhibit that told its story with folk art: hand crafted chairs, cotton-picking plows and tools, buttons made of sea mussels, the most [...]
September 3rd, 2011Artistry in the world, in our work, in ourselves
“William Morris told us to cease thinking of art as the rarefied expression of a mystically talented few, or as the peculiar possession of rich men. He argued that work is the mother of art, directing our study to carpets as well as paintings, axes as well as statues, and he bade us consider our [...]
August 28th, 2011Thousands of tiny stitches: my first quilt
One day in April or May of this year, I was sitting in the living room at my parents’ house perusing some quilt books (my mother owns plenty) when Ben and I came across what would become my summer (and 2009) project. The modern design of the quilt he chose (it was to be his [...]
December 22nd, 2009Jessie’s pensieve: @ start of summer
In an effort to compile several small things that are on my mind, this will serve as small list of blog-worthy things happening now, that maybe work better when merely mentioned, and not stretched out for content’s sake (and therefore, in the danger zone “boring.” This is more of a personal blog than I usually [...]
May 30th, 2009