Resources for Teachers and Learners
Teaching about Gee’s Bend Art
Quilts and Prints:
Young People Respond to Gee’s Bend Art
With the expert help of a talented block print artist and teacher, Elaine Elledge, we embarked on an eight-month-long project to study the fabric artists of Gee’s Bend, Alabama. The challenge of emulating the unique artistic concepts in the Gee’s Bend artwork to make our quilts and block prints was both formidable and thrilling.
Eleven of my students were featured during the month of December at Schlow Library’s art gallery. Student writings about their creative process are on display alongside the quilts and prints in the photo gallery below. I hope you will enjoy the photos of the show below, the article in the Centre County Gazette, and the Schlow Library podcast.
0 Quilts and Prints Artists
1 Quilts and Prints Gallery Entrance
2 Quilts and Prints Exhibit Wall 1
3 Quilts and Prints Exhibit Wall 2
4 Quilts and Prints Exhibit Wall 3
5 Quilts and Prints Exhibit Wall 4
6 Overview of Blueprint and Gee’s Garden by Maia Lindsay
7 Maia Lindsay Write Up for Blueprint and Gee’s Garden
8 Blueprint by Maia Lindsay
9 Gee’s Garden by Maia Lindsay
10 Overview of City Spiral Staircase and Jade River by Lorelei Hilling Keil
11 Write up for City Spiral Staircase and Jade River by Lorelei Hilling Keil
12 City Spiral Starecase by Lorelei Hilling Keil
13 Jade River by Lorelei Hilling Keil
14 Overview of Faded Sunset and Pinwheel by Grayson Ruble
15 Write up for Faded Sunset and Pinwheel by Grayson Ruble
16 Faded Sunset by Grayson Ruble
17 Pinwheel by Grayson Ruble
18 Overview of Off Center and Spring Garden by Faith Kingsley
19 Write up for Off Center and Spring Garden by Faith Kingsley
20 Off Center by Faith Kingsley
21 Spring Garden by Faith Kingsley
22 Overview of Patchwork and Solstice by Katie Loomis-Adams
23 Write up for Patchwork and Solstice by Katie Loomis-Adams
24 Patchworkby Katie Loomis-Adams
25 Solstice by Katie Loomis-Adams
26 Overview of Untitled and Earthset by Gus Trisch
27 Write up for Untitled and Earthset by Gus Trisch
28 Untitled by Gus Trisch
29 Earthset by Gus Trisch
30 Overview of Evergreen and Jubilant by Hannah Grossman
31 Write up for Evergreen and Jubilant by Hannah Grossman
32 Evergreen by Hannah Grossman
33 Jubilant by Hannah Grossman
34 Overview of Overlay and Indian Summer by Ruth Anstrom
35 Write up for Overlay and Indian Summer by Ruth Anstrom
36 Overlay by Ruth Anstrom
37 Indian Summer by Ruth Anstrom
38 Overview of Windows to the Other World by Amila Dukel
39 Write up for Windows to the Other World by Amila Dukel
40 Windows to the Other World by Amila Dukel
41 Overview of Summer fields by Huck Tritsch
42 Write up for Summer fields by Huck Tritsch
43 Summer fields by Huck Tritsch
44 Overview of The Crooked Maze by Bennu Dukel
45 Write up for The Crooked Maze by Bennu Dukel
46 The Crooked Maze by Bennu Dukel
