In Memory of Sandra Holliday

Posted on June 23, 2011 by ovbrantley

Fellow quilter Sandra Holliday passed away June 16, 2011. Her homegoing service will be held today at 10 a.m. at Elizabeth Baptist Church. Sandra was a member of the Sewjourners Quilt Guild. She loved collecting black memorabilia, and often reflected that passion in her quilts. Her quilt Watermelon Man was such a quilt. Her fresh [...]

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Nora Ezell Dies at 88

Posted on September 17, 2007 by ovbrantley

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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Quilting Pioneer Cuesta Benberry Dies

Posted on September 9, 2007 by ovbrantley

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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Rosie Lee Tompkins, African-American Quiltmaker, Dies at 70

Posted on December 7, 2006 by ovbrantley

Reprinted from the New York Times By MARGALIT FOX Published: December 6, 2006 Rosie Lee Tompkins, a renowned African-American quiltmaker whose use of dazzling color and vivid geometric forms made her work internationally acclaimed despite her vehement efforts to remain completely unknown, was found dead on Friday at her home in Richmond, Calif. She was [...]

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Obituary of Ruth Clement Bond, A Trailblazing Quilter

Posted on November 20, 2005 by ovbrantley

© 2005 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on 11/14/2005. New York — Ruth Clement Bond, 101, a prominent educator and civic leader who in the mid-1930s, in her first and only foray into quilt design, helped transform the American quilt from a utilitarian bedcovering into a work of avant-garde social commentary, died [...]

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