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The Clara Ford Foundation will be “in the house” promoting African American quilting Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at the YWCA Open Your Purse Event! The event is a fund raiser for the Atlanta YWCA. There will be over 400 women at the Downtown Ritz Carlton ready to open their purses to support the YWCA. For [...]
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By Dennis Heves Reprinted from the New York Times September 17, 2007 Nora Ezell, a quilter in the African-American tradition renowned for her storytelling panels and for vividly colorful abstract works, died Sept. 6 in Tuscaloosa, Ala., at the home of one her granddaughters. She was 88 and lived in Eutaw, Ala. The cause was [...]
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Reprinted By Patricia Sullivan Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, September 3, 2007 Cuesta Benberry, 83, one of the nation’s foremost quilt scholars who pieced together the history of the art from castoff patches of information, died of congestive heart failure Aug. 23 at Forest Park Hospital in St. Louis. Mrs. Benberry’s research was so fundamental [...]
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