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sheabutterbitch:

Thanks to Etsy, You Can Now Purchase a Gee's Bend Quilt Online for the First Time

The Alabama community of women quilters launched nine new Etsy stores in honor of Black History Month

Smithsonian Magazine

The women of Gee’s Bend, a small, mostly African American town in rural Alabama, started making masterful quilts in the early 19th century. But the art world only began recognizing their work relatively recently, with the first major exhibitions of Gee’s Bend quilts taking place in the early 2000s. Since then, cultural institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum have added colorful quilts by artists Martha Jane Pettway, Mary Lee Bendolph, Lucy T. Pettway and many more to their collections.

I wish I had a few thousand dollars to spare so I can purchase one of these quilts off of Etsy. They’re selling out fast! I am so happy for them.

Here’s an article which contains each of their Etsys

(via womansart)