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All Gee's Bend Quilters

Quilters of Gee's Bend, the isolated Black community on the Alabama River whose women have pieced quilts from worn clothing and scraps for generations, in bold, improvised geometric patterns that museums now exhibit as modern art. A textile artist belongs here when the cited article or its infobox names the Gee's Bend collective in connection with the person. It excludes Bauhaus weavers and contemporary conceptual fiber artists, who have their own groups, and quilters who only share a technique.

All Gee's Bend Quilters
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Wikipedia: Mary Lee Bendolph
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Mary Lee Bendolph (born 1935) is an American quilt maker of the Gee's Bend Collective from Gee's Bend (Boykin), Alabama.
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Wikipedia: Loretta Pettway
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Loretta Pettway (May 18, 1942, May 15, 2026) is an American artist and quilt maker of the Gee's Bend Collective from Boykin, Alabama.
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