Of salt and spirit : black quilters in the American South /

"Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South surveys some of the richly diverse quiltmaking traditions maintained by Black women in the US South during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Drawn from the Mississippi Museum of Art's holdings, the works featured in this pub...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Plummer, Sharbreon S. (Author, Curator)
Other Authors:	Cross, Lauren T. (Contributor), Mason, Danielle (Contributor), Atlas, Gustina (Contributor), Nash, Geraldine (Contributor), Lovell, Precious (Contributor), Jasper, Lydia (Contributor), Ford, Gil (Photographer)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : Mississippi Museum of Art, [2024]
Subjects:	Mississippi Museum of Art > Catalogs. Freeman, Roland L., > 1936-2023 > Art collections > Exhibitions Quilting > Southern States > History > Exhibitions. African American quiltmakers > Southern States > Exhibitions. Quilts > Social aspects > Southern States > Exhibitions. Textile crafts > Southern States > Exhibitions. CRAFTS & HOBBIES / General. exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogs. Catalogues d'exposition.

Table of Contents:

Preface / Betsy Bradley
Of salt and spirit : a love letter to Black Southern women / Sharbreon Plummer, PhD
Black Southern women and quilting as womanist practice / Lauren Cross, PhD
Of salt and spirit : Black quilters in the American South : works from the exhibition
So you can see past the eyes : Roland Freeman and the art of preservation / Danielle Mason
Threading the needle : Black quilters on place and practice / Gustina Atlas, Geraldine Nash, and Precious Lovell, with Lydia Jasper.