"When the Cotton is High: Social Justice and Textiles" via Zoom
From Chawne: "For centuries women have used their utilitarian and decorative textile work to express their politics and opinions on issues of the day. We'll take a look at some historical examples and then romp through my own work. My quilts use the lens of identity and difference to confront social conflicts like campus rape culture, Black Lives Matter, and censorship."
Award-winning textile artist Chawne Kimber is an artist who exhibits quilts and embroidery in museums, galleries, and festivals all over the United States. Through cultivation of cotton in rural Alabama, some of her ancestors (unwillingly) participated in building the United States. Inspired by quilts made by these ancestors in the late 1800's, Chawne interprets traditional patchwork forms in an improvisational style and indulges in political confrontations in quilt form. When not manipulating cotton, Chawne in a professor of mathematics at a small liberal arts college in the Northeast.
This Zoom meeting for speaker Chawne Kimber is limited by contract to QC Members only.