Quilts of Gee's Bend

The quilts of Gee's Bend are quilts created by generations of women and their ancestors in the isolated African-American hamlet of Gee's Bend, Alabama, along the Alabama River, whose residents are direct descendants of enslaved people who worked a cotton plantation established there in 1816. The quilting tradition dates to the nineteenth century and continues today, and the quilts are counted among the most important African-American visual and cultural contributions to the history of art in the United States, gaining international recognition through museum and gallery exhibitions.