Dec 01 2017
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Jan 31 2018
Quilts of Gee's Bend

Quilts of Gee's Bend

Presented by Alabama Folklife Association at Hoover Public Library

Friends Art Gallery / Dec 1 – Dec 31, 2017
Plaza Art Gallery / Jan 1 – Jan 31, 2017

The Gee’s Bend community is located on a peninsula of land formed by a bend in the Alabama River. This historically and culturally significant landscape holds deep within its roots Alabama’s greatest quilting tradition, recognized nationally and internationally for the innovative use of geometric shapes, the formation of complex patterns and the combination of diverse colors and textures. Once owned by the planter class, the original slave population made quilts as a necessity to stay warm. Over time and through many periods of hardships and oppression, their descendants carried on the tradition. Today, several generations of people from Gee’s Bend continue making quilts that are now recognized as spectacular works of art.

This exhibition was made possible by the Alabama Folklife Association.

Admission Info

9-9 Mon-Thu
9-6 Fri
10-6 Sat
2-6 Sun

Phone: 205-444-7800

Dates & Times

2017/12/01 - 2018/01/31

Location Info

Hoover Public Library

200 Municipal Drive, Hoover, AL 35216