In the southwestern quadrant of Alabama, surrounded on three sides by the winding Alamaba river, sits the rural town of Boykin, which is known to everyone as Gee’s Bend. There, among the town’s 275 ...
As Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Brit + Co, Anjelika Temple brings her voracious consumption of all things creative and colorful to DIY projects, geeky gadgetry finds and more. When she's ...
Lauren Ro is interested in baby gear (she’s a new mom) and the ins-and-outs of decorating a home. Prior to the Strategist, she was a writer at Curbed, and before that was Wes Anderson’s assistant.
Over the past few decades, the quilts of Gee’s Bend have become the type of work that one is most likely to come across in a museum. Colorful and abstract, the pieces are made by African-American ...
The inspired quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend turned a rural riverside community in Alabama into a highly influential destination for those interested in the confluence of heritage craft and contemporary art ...
Quilts made by the women of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, are, according to The New York Times, “Some of the most miraculous works of modern art America has produced.” They’ve been immortalized on U.S. postage ...
Craftwork from the famed quilters of Gee’s Bend can be found in the collections of blue-chip institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum.
In honor of Black History Month, Etsy debuted nine online stores featuring work by Gee’s Bend quilters (including Doris Pettway Mosely, who is pictured here). Courtesy of Nest The women of Gee’s Bend, ...
Selling quilts on Etsy requires more than creative skill — it calls for strategic pricing, optimized listings, and careful shipping. From calculating real costs to using search-friendly titles and ...
Quilting has influenced fashion for years — now it’s time for some of the most celebrated practitioners of the art form to get paid directly for their work. All the while, quilting has remained a ...
I grew up surrounded by quilts. My grandmother has been quilting since the 1950s, and while my experience is far less than hers, it's a hobby I dove head-first into during the throes of the Covid ...
If you’ve ever wanted to own a one-of-a-kind quilt from Alabama’s famed Gee’s Bend, which has produced distinctively stylized quilt masterpieces than can be viewed on display in art museums around the ...