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Quiltfolk sponsored video: Teresa Duryea Wong hosts a discussion with Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi, Kyra Hicks, Jennifer Swope, and Aisha Amos Carter – Harriet’s great-great-granddaughter. Go to Quiltfolk YouTube to watch this video and witness the intense passion these women have for Harriet’s incredible contributions to the world of quilting.
When Eli Leon died, he bequeathed 3,000 African American quilts to the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. Some 500 were made by the famed artist Rosie Lee Tompkins. Teresa Duryea Wong interviewed Associate Curator & Academic Liaison Elaine Yau to get the inside story of how one mid-size museum became a major holder of thousands of quilts seemingly overnight. Available on YouTube – free and open to everyone.
Episode 119 – Brandy Maslowski – host of the Quilter on Fire Podcast – invited me on her show to talk about quilts, books, magazines, travel, history… and it was great fun. The show is live today – June 6, 2023. Check it out. Go to quilteronfire.com/podcast
Quilt research inside the archives of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. And of course all good quilt study requires a great photo. My research focused on a collection of mid-20th century quilts made in the Great Plains region. You can read more about these quilts and their makers in my new book “Sewing & Survival.”
Every quilt has a story. My specialty is finding those stories and bringing them to life. Whether it’s for a lecture, or a book, I will travel just about anywhere to chase a great quilt and discover its story.
