Mozell Benson
“Her quilts are the visual equivalent of jazz or blues. She will take a basic pattern and then do variations on it just like a musician will do with a jazz piece.”
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Nellie Star Boy Menard
In Sioux culture, an accomplished traditional quiltmaker is measured not only by a mastery of needlework techniques, of the creative use of the star motif, and of traditional aesthetic principles, but also by her dedication to the community in the practice of her art. Over her lifetime, Menard produced scores of quilts for traditional family and community purposes.
Mary Holiday Black
A member of the Bitter Water Clan, she was raised in a community of traditional Navajo artists and religious practitioners. In the 1970s, encouraged by a burgeoning Native American art market and local traders, Black focused her creative work on basketweaving and introduced several innovations that proved critical to the tradition’s survival.
Mary Jackson
A descendent of the Gullah community of coastal South Carolina, Mary Jackson learned the art of making baskets at the age of four from her mother and grandmother.
Mary Jane Manigault
Manigault’s baskets have attained widespread recognition because of the sculptural quality of the forms she created and the imaginative use of natural design and color. She often experimented with different forms, but never overdecorated, understanding the value of the plain, unadorned traditional designs.
Mary Mitchell Gabriel
Passamaquoddy basketmaker
Molly Neptune Parker
The matriarch of four generations of Passamaquoddy basketweavers
Dorothy Cottrell
Disabled Australian author Dorothy Cottrell was ‘the Liane Moriarty of the Jazz Age’ but is almost unheard of here
Marion Coleman
Marion Coleman quilts bear witness that the aesthetic is still a thriving tradition in the African-American community.
Dr Johnnetta Betsch Cole
A scholar, anthropologist, and academic pace-setter, Johnnetta Betsch Cole’s pioneering work about the on-going contributions of Afro-Latin, Caribbean, and African communities have advanced American understanding of Black culture and the necessity and power of racial inclusion in the US.