STURDY TRADITIONS with Jess Bailey
Description
Jess Bailey is an art historian, a collector of stories, and a quilter. You may know Jess from Instagram @publiclibraryquilts or their book, Many Hands Make a Quilt: Short Histories of Radical Quilting.
The conversation we had was tender and joyful as we discussed:
① why representation and visibility are so important in the quilting community,
② the power of a gifted quilts, and
③ how to start a quilting practice even if you come from a long a line of quilters.
HELPFUL LINKS ♡
⤷ historic New Deal quilting bee photos
⤷ Anna's mother Ruth Higham's book, The Edge of the Land
⤷ The quilt made by the last indigenous queen of Hawaii
⤷ Get a copy of Jess’s book Many Hands Make A Quilt: Short Histories of Radical Quilting in the US and in the UK
⤷ Listen to the oral history interview from the Quilt Alliance that Jess mentions
⤷ work by Kailani Polzak, researcher of visual constructions of race in 18th and 19th century Europe
⤷ Join me and Heidi Parkes for Sewing in Place at Madeline Island School of the Arts this June
⤷ Learn more about the inner work of textiles in a supportive creative community, THE QUILTY NOOK
⤷ Theme music: Roll Jordan Roll by the Joy Drops
United States
