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Bring the beauty and outstanding craft of The Quilts of Gee’s Bend into your home or office. Choose from calendars, datebooks, notepads and posters or from our collection of books, CDs, DVDs and note cards. Perfect gifts for someone who loves fine American craft.

A portion of the proceeds of all products you purchase goes to the women of the Gee’s Bend Quilters Collective.

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1. Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt

   Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt explores the origins, aesthetics, family structures, and community roots of this crucial American cultural legacy; presents newly discovered masterworks from the second half of the twentieth century; and, by spotlighting more than a dozen quilts created in the last four years, celebrates the recent and dazzling revitalization of Gee’s Bend’s artmaking in the twenty-first century. The book offers evidence that a once-dying art form may now continue to thrive and inspire art lovers well into the new millennium.
2. Signs and Symbols: African Images in African American Quilts.

   Signs and Symbols: African Images in African American Quilts. African American quilts fully realize the expressive force of jazz and bind together generations of African American families. Quilt expert Maude Southwell Wahlman introduces readers to a third powerful force in these quilts— their African-derived meanings, patterns, and iconography—and explores the religious, ritual, philosophical, and aesthetic beliefs represented in these textiles. Over 150 full color, high quality reproductions.
3. Souls Grown Deep, Vol. 1: African American Vernacular Art.

   Souls Grown Deep, Vol. 1: African American Vernacular Art. From Library Journal: “This massive volume provides an exhaustively detailed examination of the work of Southern African American folk/outsider artists active in the decades following World War II.… Through numerous introductory essays and artist biographies, leading scholars in this field emphasize several major themes, including the African cultural qualities to be found in the artwork and how artists expressed ideas and emotions current in the struggle for civil rights. Over 800 mostly color illustrations… (T)his will long be the definitive work on this subject, it is highly recommended.” (Eugene C. Burt, Data Arts, Seattle, Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.)
4. Souls Grown Deep, Vol. 2: African American Vernacular Art

   Souls Grown Deep, Vol. 2: African American Vernacular Art completes the two-volume set, Souls Grown Deep, and takes the visual and historical presentation of the first volume to a richer level, offering an even broader array of artistic styles and media. This sequel delves into the work of the current generation of artists who are creating a complex form of art that blurs the boundaries between folk and contemporary art.
5. Thornton Dial in the 21st Century.

   Thornton Dial is a self-taught, original and acclaimed African American artist. This book features almost 150 images focusing on an in-depth look at his post-9/11 work, homages to his friends, the quiltmakers in Gee’s Bend and pieces from his Southern childhood memories. Also featuring biography and essays by leading art historians.