Benita Jones, Radiant Sunlight, 2009
Cotton, batik and silk fabrics, machine applique and quilted
Courtesy of the artist
Marion Coleman, Susan, #3 in the "Yes We Are Fifty Plus" Series, 2006
Stitched fiber collage portrait
Courtesy of the artist
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Amazing Wonders: Quilts by African Americans of the Northern California Region features over 30 quilts by artists living and working in the region. In addition to quilts in private collections and artists from the Sacramento area, featured are the nationally known contributions of artists working with the Oakland, California African American Quilters Guild. Accompanying the exhibit will be a 32-page softbound catalogue.
Amazing Wonders: Quilts by African American of the Northern California Region is a celebration of quilt-making in the various traditional and nontraditional ways that the art has survived into the twenty-first century, and serves as a testament that the craft is still very much alive and well.
For Amazing Wonders, in addition to working closely with Oakland’s African American Quilter’s Guild as well as local guilds here in Sacramento, Folsom and Elk Grove, the 40 Acres Art Gallery is pleased to be collaborating with UC Davis’ Richard L. Nelson Gallery, which will be simultaneously presenting an exhibit of African American quilts from a private collection. Curated by Felicenne Ramey and gallery director Renny Pritikin, the exhibit will be on view in Davis from September 24 – December 13, 2009, and will feature quilts from the collections of Avis C. Robinson of Washington, D.C. and Sandra McPherson of Davis.
On view in the Young @ Art Gallery:
Quilting the Patch, Computer Graphic, artwork created by Sac High students with artist Gioia Fonda
Amazing Wonders is sponsored by Advancing Sacramento Arts, an initiative of the Sacramento Region Community Foundation made possible by a grant from the James Irvine Foundation.
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