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Date Created2015
DescriptionIt was given to me by my best friend / boyfriend for my 23rd birthday present by his mom. The koala incorporation is meaningful because koalas have always been my favorite animal. Also, the pink in...
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Date Created2016
DescriptionThis quilt was inspired by the book Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery and the Troubled History of American Universities by Craig Steven Wyler. As a young woman growing up in Medford, Massachusetts, I...
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Date Created1900-1985
DescriptionIn the 1980’s my mother Edwinia Marie Middleton (nee Carey), aunt Virginia Davis (nee Carey), and grandmother aka “Nana”, Isabelle J. Grunderway (nee Marsh) travelled to Arkansas. Nana was born...
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Date Created2010
DescriptionThis was the very first quilt I made. I hand dyed the batiks during a batik workshop conducted by Kokroko in Kumasi, Ghana in July 2010. My sister Tarsha-Nicole Taylor of Tewksbury, MA helped me...
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Date Created2016
DescriptionThis quilt was inspired by the notion of justice within the courts. The Ghanaian Adinkra symbol Gye Nyame which is the focal point of this quilt, means “except for God,” Gye Nyame is at the center...
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DescriptionThis quilt was made by Nubian Heritage Quilter's Guild member Marietta Schoenherr.
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Date Created2014
DescriptionThis quilt was made by Nubian Heritage Quilter's Guild member Marietta Schoenherr when she was over 90 years old.
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TitleGojulas
Date Created2012
DescriptionThis was made for my son who built his first functional computer at the age of 9.
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Date Created2016
DescriptionThis quilt was inspired by the following articles: Bassett, Thomas J. Slim pickings: fairtrade cotton in West Africa. Geoforum 41.1 (2010): 44-55. Day, Elizabeth. The desperate plight of Africa’s...
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Date Created2016
DescriptionI really wanted to make a feathered star and this quilt is my first. It is also my first attempt at paper-piecing which I used to create the star. The Ghanaian Adinkra symbol Sankofa is the focal...