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Quilts of Gee's Bend

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Quilts of Gees Bend Alabama
collective, art movement
obere ụdị nkequilt, African American art Dezie
Ọnọdụ mmepụtaBoykin Dezie
a 1979 nke Lucy Mingo nke Gee's Bend, Alabama. Ọ na-agụnye oghere etiti nke itoolu gbara ya gburugburu.

Ihe mkpuchi nke Gee's Bend bụ ihe mkpuchi nke otu ụmụ nwanyị na ndị nna nna ha bi ma ọ bụ biri n'ọbọdọ nta ndị Africa America dịpụrụ adịpụ nke Gee'S Bend, Alabama n'akụkụ Osimiri Alabama. Ihe mkpuchi nke Gee's Bend so n'ime ihe kachasị mkpa ndị Afrịka na America na-ahụ ányà na ọdịbendị nyèrè aka na akụkọ ihe méré eme nke nka na United States. Arlonzia Pettway, Annie Mae Young na Mary Lee Bendolph so n'ime ụfọdụ n'ime ndị na-eme akwa akwa akwa a ma ama na Gee's Bend. Ọtụtụ n'ime ndị bi n'ọbọdọ ahụ nwere ike ịchọta ndị nna nna ha laghachi azụ na ndị ohu si na Pettway Plantation. Arlonzia Pettway nwere ike icheta akụkọ nne nne ya banyéré ndị nna nna ya, ọkachasị nke Dinah Miller, onye e ji ụgbọ ohu kpọbata na United States na 1859.[1]

Akụkọ ihe mere eme

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N'ebe ndịda ọdịda anyanwụ nke Selma, na Black Belt nke Alabama, Gee's Bend (nke a na-akpọ Boykin) bụ ọbọdọ dịpụrụ adịpụ, nke dị n'ime ime obodo nke ihe dị ka narị mmadụ asaa. A na-akpọ mpaghara ahụ aha Joseph Gee, ónyé nwe ala nke si North Carolina wee guzobe ubi owu na 1816 ya na ndị ohu ya iri na asaá. N'afọ 1845, e rere ubi ahụ na Mark H. Pettway. Ọtụtụ ndị ọbọdọ ahụ ka na-ebu aha ahụ. Mgbè nnwere onwe gasịrị, ọtụtụ ndị ohu a tọhapụrụ na ndị ezinụlọ nọgidere n'ugbo ahụ dị ka ndị na-ekere òkè.

Jennie Pettway na nwa agbọghọ ọzọ na onye na-emepụta akwa Jorena Pettway, Gee's Bend 1937

Ihe ndị e ji eme ihe

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Omenala akwa akwa na Gee's Bend laghachiri azụ karịa narị afọ nke iri na itoolu ma nwee ike ịbụ na ọ nwèrè mmetụta n'akụkụ ụfọdụ site na akwa ndị American Indian na akwa ndị Africa. Ụmụ nwanyị Africa-America jikọtara akwa akwa iji mee ihe mkpuchi àkwà. N'ime afọ ndị agha gachara na narị afọ nke irí abụọ, ụmụ nwanyị Gee's Bend mèrè akwa iji mee ka onwe ha na ụmụ ha na-ekpo ọkụ n'ụlọ ndị na-enweghị okpomọkụ nke na-enweghị mmiri, ekwentị na ọkụ eletrik. N'ụzọ ha mepụtara ụdị pụrụ iche, nke a maara màkà ihe ndị dị egwu na ịdị mfe geometric. Ọtụtụ n'ime akwa akwa akwa bụ ihe dị iche na ime akwa akwa ógè ochie, na-eme ka anyị cheta àgwà dị mfe. Nke a nwekwara ike ịbụ n'ihi ikewapụ ha, nke chọrọ iji ihe ọ bụla dị n'aka, na-emekarị ka ha jiri uwe ochie na akwa ochie mee ihe.[2]

Ụmụ nwanyị si Gee's Bend na-arụ ọrụ n'elu akwa, 2005

N'afọ 2003, ndị na-eme akwa irí isé guzobere Gee's Bend Collective, nke ụmụ nwanyị Gee's bend nwèrè ma na-arụ ọrụ. Akpụkpọ anụ ọ bụla Gee's Bend Quilt Collective na-ere bụ ihe pụrụ iche ma na-emepụta n'otu n'otu. N'afọ ndị na-adịbeghị anya, ndị otu Collective emeela njem na mba niile iji kwuo màkà akụkọ ihe mere eme nke Gee's Bend na nka ha. Ọtụtụ n'ime ụmụ nwanyị ahụ aghọwo ndị a ma ama maka ọgụgụ isi ha, àgwà na-adọrọ mmasị na, n'ọnọdụ ụfọdụ, ikike ịbụ abụ.

Quilting, Gee's Bend, 2010

N'afọ 2015, ndị na-eme akwa akwa Gee's Bend Mary Lee Bendolph, Lucy Mingo, na Loretta Pettway bụ ndị jikọrọ aka nweta National Heritage Fellowship nke National Endowment for the Arts nyèrè, nke bụ nsọpụrụ kachasị elu nke gọọmentị United States na nka ọdịnala na ọdịnala.[3]

  • Ihe osise ndị Africa America
  • Ndepụta nke ndị na-ese ihe nkiri African-American
  • Jessie T. Pettway
  • Annie Bendolph
  • Ike Harriet

Edensibia

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  1. (2009) in Halper: Choosing craft : the artist's viewpoint. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0807831199. OCLC 646811437. 
  2. "'The Quilts of Gee's Bend': A Showcase of Distinctive Work by African-American Artists", NPR.org, February 4, 2003. Retrieved on December 5, 2017. (in en)
  3. NEA National Heritage Fellowships 2015. www.arts.gov. National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved on November 19, 2020.

Ịgụ ihe ọzọ

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Njikọ mpụga

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  • The Quilts of Gee's Bend in Context. Auburn University, Women's Studies. Archived from the original on April 19, 2019.
  • Ọrụ na America, Oge 6, ihe omume: INDUSTRY. Usoro ihe omume PBS banyere ọrụ aka na United States. Ihe omume a gụnyere akụkụ banyere Gee's Bend Quilters, nke na-amalite n'ihe dị ka 4:10, na-agwụ na ihe dị ka 17:10.
  • Gee's Bend Quiltmakers. Souls Grown Deep. Souls Grown Deep Foundation. Retrieved on 17 Dec 2020.
  • Marvar. "Can You Copyright a Quilt?", The Nation., 29 Oct 2018. Retrieved on 17 Dec 2020.
  • The Quilts of Gee's Bend. Souls Grown Deep. Souls Grown Deep Foundation. Retrieved on 17 Dec 2020.