Quilting Videos and Resources

Help us to capture the African American heritage of North Lawndale. Please suggest links to websites featuring African Americans from North Lawndale, videos, articles, pictures, etc. Feel free to submit your own material by e-mailing Valerie F. Leonard at valeriefleonard@msn.com.Not only will you help preserve history, but your stories can inspire the development of quilts depicting the African American culture in North Lawndale.

Quilt University


Expand your quilting horizons from the comfort of your own home.  Quilt University offers more than 120 online classes, from basic quilting to graduate design work.  New to Quilt U?  Visit our Student Orientation.No tests.  No grades.  No pressure.  New classes open every weekend from January until the end of October.  Students receive a password to an online classroom with a teacher-led Discussion Forum and Student Gallery.  A typical class consists of three or four lessons.  Lessons open on Friday evening.   Learn more ...


2011 African American Quilters and Collectors Exhibit in Denver, CO
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The Women of Gee's Bend


Interview with the quilters of Gees Bend, visit Norfolk, VA
NorfolkTV

One of the poorest locations in the U.S., the residents of Gees Bend survived to create quilts of art seen at Norfolk's Chrysler Museum of Art. Produced in 2004.
www.chrysler.org


Black History Month - Quilts


Black History Quilts




This Week: Textural Rhythms: Constructing the Jazz Tradition, Contemporary African American Quilts
San Francisco's Museum of the African Diaspora features works of art spun from two highly improvisational forms of African American culture...jazz and quilting. Watch as featured artist Marion Coleman takes an "anything goes" approach to create contemporary art quilts in her Castro Valley studio.


The Underground Railroad Freedom Quilt Codes 



The African American Quilt Making Tradition 
This film analyzes the importance of the African American Quilt Making Tradition by examining the quilts made by Aunt Margaret,Aunt Ellen, Harriet Powers, and Faith Ringgold.



Underground Railroad Quilts



African American Quilts
By Corinne Riley



Teaching Guide for Martha Ann's Quilt for Queen Victoria
By Kyra Hicks
Teaching Guide for Martha Ann s Quilt for Queen Victoria

Black Threads
Moderated by Kyra Hicks


Explorations in African American Quilting, Quilt History, Fabrics and other Fanciful Topics. http://www.blackthreads.blogspot.com/
  
Womenfolk: The Art of Quilting
Quilts and Quiltmaking Yesterday and Today
African American quilting is almost as old as the history of America. Black slave women were needed for spinning, weaving, sewing and quilting on plantations and in other wealthy households.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Womenfolk-The-Art-of-Quilting/45147863567

Trish Williams

http://handworksbytrish.com/
http://www.artquilters.com/
http://www.fiberartistscoalition.com/
http://www.saqa.com/
http://www.wcqn.org/

Ramona Dallum Lindsey
http://ramonadlindsey.blogspot.com/