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| THE QUILTING Supported by the Multicultural Arts Initiative, Pittsburgh, PA |
| I began working with The Quilting in May 2007. A wonderful thing happened…we discovered our shared love of the art form, and our compatibility as a group was born. Our quilts-in-progress have decided that we should continue working together because of our collective cultural memories, our love of fabric, needles and thread, and our expanded appreciation of art and creativity. |
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| The MCAI grantmaking objective is to enhance the cultural landscape of the region by funding consistently high quality African American and African-influenced arts programming as well as targeted culturally specific arts programming to include Latino, Asian and Native American. This expanded landscape will reflect a region which integrates these art forms in the cultural fabric of its communities and heightens the cultural conscience of its citizens. |
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| We began our journey by taking a field trip to the Quilt Company to browse and purchase fabric. |
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| NEXT . . . . . to work, cutting fabric |
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| THEN . . . . . a little free-flowing creativity with paint |
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| THEN . . . . . we daydream, design sew, sew, sew. . .and inspire each other with encouraging words and understanding. |
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| Our new home is Bloomfield-Garfield Activity Center. Large tables and space make it more conducive to spreading out and putting our quilt "sandwiches" together. |
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| COMING SOON. . . Artist Statements Our Poetry, and News of Our Upcoming Exhibition |
| Our first home was Abyssinia LLC. We spent inspirational moments in the Gallery writing poems and then back downstairs to the studio to work. |
| Our work so far is all by hand. We’ve discovered a certain calmness through close contact with our creations. Sometimes, the placement of a sewing machine between the artist and her work is an obstruction. We will introduce sewing machines for some quilting, border and finishing work. |
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