Rosie Lee Tompkins

The New York Times called her "one of the great American artists," and her work "one of the century's major artistic accomplishments."

The Los Angeles Times described her work as "stunning, improvisational quilts that fuse organic form with vivid, patterned geometry to create abstract narratives of individual devotion." Later, The New York Times called her "one of the great American artists," and her work "one of the century's major artistic accomplishments." More than 500 works by Tompkins reside at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

began to quilt seriously about 1980, while making a living as a practical nurse in the Bay Area.

a widely acclaimed African-American quiltmaker and fiber artist

is the art pseudonym of Effie Mae Martin Howard, a widely acclaimed African-American quiltmaker and fiber artist of Richmond, California