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More Gee’s Bend is a historically Black community situated between Selma and Camden, and the quilting tradition there has been passed down through generations. It was born of necessity in the ...

From left, Gee's Bend quilters Lucy Mingo, Rita Mae Pettway and Revil Mosely worked on a quilt in 2011 for a project at the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center in Birmingham. (AL.com file photo ...

Gee’s Bend is a historically Black community situated between Selma and Camden, and the quilting tradition there has been passed down through generations. It was born of necessity in the 1800s ...

GEE’S BEND | In a building off a winding, isolated road, Nancy Brown joins other elderly women working to gently weave the brilliant colors of the fabric, a large quilt of yellow, red, green ...

The artistry of the Quilters of Gee’s Bend has been acclaimed as one of the world’s most vibrant contemporary textile traditions. During the residency, the artists will have sewing sessions in ...

Reportedly, Gee’s Bend quilts have been featured on several occasions; during Paris Fashion Week 2022, in the Whitney Museum of American Art, in the Smithsonian, and sighted in HBO’s Gossip ...

Six months ago, Etsy started the pilot program for this initiative by launching a few of the Gee’s Bend shops online. Since then, Jean said the quilters have generated more than $300,000 in sales.

Quilts from the Black women artists of Gee’s Bend, a rural community in Alabama, are on sale online for the first time in partnership with Etsy, Nest, and Souls Grown Deep.

New Yorkers who missed The Quilts of Gee's Bend, an exhibition seen at the Whitney Museum of American Art during the winter of 2002-3, should have their collective knuckles soundly rapped.