Deeds Not Words
Celebrating 100 Years of Women's Suffrage
Published on 28. March 2020
Book
Hardback
96 pages
978-0-7643-5917-0 (ISBN)
Description
28 contemporary art quilts by award-winning artists, both men and women, recognizes unsung suffragists.
An unusually creative honoring of the 19th Amendment's centennial-it was ratified August 18, 1920. Twenty-nine award-winning textile artists from across the United States each crafted a quilt celebrating women's suffrage. These dazzlingly varied, sometimes troubling, always inspiring artworks reflect the long and continuing fight for equal rights for all.
Introductions summarize the history of women's suffrage, an even more complicated subject than you might think, then dozens of art quilts continue the learning. Male artists are included to acknowledge the support of many men for women's suffrage, and African American artists and suffragists are recognized as well.
Although the 19th Amendment made a huge stride forward for women's rights, in many voting situations that right extended to white women only because of prejudicial practices. All royalties will be shared equally between the New England Quilt Museum and Texas Quilt Museum.
An unusually creative honoring of the 19th Amendment's centennial-it was ratified August 18, 1920. Twenty-nine award-winning textile artists from across the United States each crafted a quilt celebrating women's suffrage. These dazzlingly varied, sometimes troubling, always inspiring artworks reflect the long and continuing fight for equal rights for all.
Introductions summarize the history of women's suffrage, an even more complicated subject than you might think, then dozens of art quilts continue the learning. Male artists are included to acknowledge the support of many men for women's suffrage, and African American artists and suffragists are recognized as well.
Although the 19th Amendment made a huge stride forward for women's rights, in many voting situations that right extended to white women only because of prejudicial practices. All royalties will be shared equally between the New England Quilt Museum and Texas Quilt Museum.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Atglen
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
71 color images
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 234 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
748 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7643-5917-0 (9780764359170)
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Persons
Sandra Sider is the editor of Art Quilt Quarterly and is curator of the Texas Quilt Museum. Pamela Weeks is curator of the New England Quilt Museum. She is a quilter, fiber artist, and quilt historian. Pamela Weeks is the Binney Family Curator of the New England Quilt Museum. She is a quilt historian and quilter, and co-author of Civil War Quilts with Don Beld.