generate income, some of the Bee's quilts were displayed in the Smithsonian Institution. The Freedom Quilting Bee was a quilting cooperative with members...

communities met in Camden’s Antioch Baptist Church to found the Freedom Quilting Bee. The Bee, one of the few Black women’s cooperatives in the United States...

American quilt maker and member of the Gee's Bend Collective from Gee's Bend (Boykin), Alabama. She was an early member of the Freedom Quilting Bee, which...

foundation Shadow or echo quilting – Hawaiian quilting, where quilting is done around an appliquéd piece on the quilt top, then the quilting is echoed again and...

"Freedom Quilting Bee | Encyclopedia of Alabama". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved 2016-11-21. Callahan, Nancy (2005-04-17). The Freedom Quilting Bee:...

Carson family. Her mother was very active in the quilting community and would often host quilting bees at their home.As a small child, Aolar along with...

founding member and longtime manager of the Freedom Quilting Bee. She is also associated with the Gee's Bend quilting group, alongside her mother, Willie "Ma...

She is associated with the Gee's Bend quilting collective and was an assistant manager of the Freedom Quilting Bee. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum...

quilting collective. She was the secretary of the Freedom Quilting Bee when it was incorporated in 1966, and then served as the cook for the Freedom Quilting...

the Gee's Bend quilting collective and worked for the Freedom Quilting Bee. Despite losing an arm before she began working at the Bee, she was an accomplished...

the Freedom Quilting Bee, along with her daughter Estelle Witherspoon, and is associated with the Gee's Bend quilters. Some of “Ma” Willie’s quilts are...

artist. She is associated with the Gee's Bend quilting collective and was a member of the Freedom Quilting Bee. Her work has been exhibited in the Museum...

Bend quilting collective, along with her mother, Annie Bendolph, and her mother-in-law, Sue Willie Seltzer. She worked at the Freedom Quilting Bee. Bettie...

for use in her quilts. She also frequently used flour and fertilizer sack fabric in her quilts. Once she joined the Freedom Quilting Bee, she donated the...

worked for the Freedom Quilting Bee and is associated with the Gee's Bend group of quilters. Her mother, Candis Pettway, taught her to quilt, and she passed...

American artist. She is associated with the Gee's Bend quilting collective and the Freedom Quilting Bee. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Fine...

an American artist. She is associated with the Freedom Quilting Bee and the Gee's Bend group of quilters, alongside her daughters Qunnie Pettway, Sally...

December 29, 1960) is an American artist. She is associated with the Freedom Quilting Bee, where her mother, Qunnie Pettway, worked, and with the Gee's Bend...

worker-owned coops and other locally operated institutions. The Freedom Quilting Bee was a notable cooperative founded in Alabama during the midst of...

Gee's Bend. Gee's Bend became an important part of the mid-1960s Freedom Quilting Bee, an offshoot of the Civil Rights Movement designed to boost family...

the Freedom Quilting Bee. Quilts were sold across the United States and were used to bring back money to the community. The tradition of quilt making by...

Pettway (1930–2003) was an American quilter. She is associated with the Gee's Bend quilting collective. Pettway's quilt titled Housetop - Nine-Block Half-Log...

Alberta, Alabama. Mensie Lee was one of the founding members of the Freedom Quilting Bee when it was first established at Estelle Witherspoon's house. Her...

That's when the quilts started becoming more up-to-date. Most Gee's Bend quilts were made from recycled materials until the Freedom Quilting Bee brought more...

quilting community. In fact, seeing the quilts hanging in Witherspoon's yard, an early gathering place for quilters before the Freedom Quilting Bee collective...

Dolores Vitero Presley, and the Alabama Freedom Quilting Bee. Turner is a quilter herself and frequently lectures on quilt culture. Trash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore...

(born 1973) is an American artist. She is associated with the Gee's Bend quilting collective, along with her mother, Lorraine Pettway. Her work has been...

Gastonburg, Alabama. Young never joined the Freedom Quilting Bee because, in her words, "When they open up the quilting bee up there, they didn't want the kind...

Gee's Bend quilting collective. In 2020, the National Gallery of Art acquired two of Missouri Pettway's quilts, along with work by other quilters from Gee's...

American Quilters of Baltimore, the Freedom Quilting Bee of Alberta, Alabama, the African American Quilters of Los Angeles, and more. Quilt collectors...