AUTHORS, WRITERS AND POETS (2019)
For the second year of the quilt project, the MACC honored Black American poets, writers and authors, including Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin and Alice Walker. These writers have impacted generations and helped shape America as we know it today. Using wood blocks, our participants learned about printmaking and how to make a print on both paper and fabric. At the end of the workshop, participants made a print on fabric of a featured individual to be included on the quilt. The quilt design also pays tribute to the long history of the written and printed word. These include depictions of quilted papayas plants, scrolls, tablets, and the Gutenberg press. There are also reading tables, reading lamps, libraries, and bookshelves, along with references to personal computers and the Internet. These technologies are quilted into the front of the quilt. Around the edge are features that have been converted to quill pens.
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