New York Times, “Some of the most miraculous works of modern art America has produced.” They’ve been immortalized U.S. postage stamps and in the Met.
When Amy Sherald painted Michelle Obama’s stunning official portrait, she that the quilts of Gee’s Bend inspired her depiction of the First Lady’s dress.And yet the women quilters of Gee’s Bend—most of whom are of enslaved people forced to work on the Gee’s family cotton plantation—have reaped few financial rewards, despite decades of acclaim.
Quilts bearing the Gee’s Bend name may have graced museum walls from the Smitshonian to the de Young in San Francisco, but the majority of households in the town have an income of under $10,000 a year, Bloomberg in 2018.
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