제가 요즘 만들고 있는 작품들입니다.
한국의 보자기와 비슷하기도하고, 제작한 퀼터들의 스토리를 듣고 나서 보니 한국의 자수나 보자기처럼 그 작품들에서 한이 느껴지기도 하고.
손염색천으로 나온 천이라 선세탁 하느라 힘든 과정을 거쳐야 했지만 완성작에서 받는 느낌은 그 고생을 보답받고도 남을 정도로 멋진 작품이 나왔습니다.
패키지 구매는 될 수 있으면 하지 않는 편인데, 손염색천을 잘 고르기도 힘들고 색상의 배합도 쉬운편이 아니라서 아주 오랫만에 패키지를 구입했어요.
Windahm Fabrics에서 나온 The Quilts of Gees Bend라는 패키지예요.
4가지씩 두 해에 걸쳐나와 8가지가 있어요.
아래는 오프라쇼에 나왔던 내용을 적은 기사인데, 제가 우리말로 번역하는게 어색해서 참고 하시라고 그냥 원문을 올립니다. (죄송!)
Over two centuries, the women of Gee's Bend—a small, rural
community southwest of Selma, Alabama—have developed a
distinctively bold and sophisticated quilting style based on traditional
patchwork quilts.
While each quiltmaker brings her unique personality to the community tradition, many Gee's Bend quilts are remarkable for their geometric simplicity mixed with a sense of flair, an innovative approach to a quintessentially American art form—the quilt—made possible by three heritages—African, Native American and European.
The women of Gee's Bend have passed their skills and style down through at least six generations, from the 19th century to the present.
During the civil rights movement in the 1960s, Gee's Bend enjoyed several years of national visibility.
A quilting bee was formed just up the road from Gee's Bend, in Rehoboth, Alabama, that made standardized quilt patterns for department stores and later undertook piecework sewing projects for Sears, Roebuck and Co.
That cooperative effort was the first opportunity for many women in the area to hold jobs and bring income into their households.
By the 1990s, quiltmaking in Gee's Bend had diminished significantly as younger residents moved away and most of the remaining quilters entered old age.
In the late 1990s, William Arnett and his son Matt, as a part of their research of African-American quilts, visited Gee's Bend and embarked on a multiyear effort to document its quilts, history, families and stories.
These efforts gradually expanded, and in 2002, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in partnership with the Arnetts, presented an exhibition of 70 quilt masterpieces from the Bend.
The Quilts of Gee's Bend exhibition was later followed by a second major exhibition, "Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt," which debuted in 2006 and is currently traveling to museums throughout the United States.
In 2003, with assistance from the Arnetts, the living quilters of Gee's Bend founded the Gee's Bend Quilters Collective to serve as the exclusive means of selling and marketing the contemporary quilts being produced by the women of the Bend.
이 퀼트 작품들은 2006년 이후 미국 전역을 순회하면서 전시되고 있는데
현재는 테네시 내쉬빌에 있는 First Center for the Visual Art라는 곳에서
지난 5월부터 오는 9월 3일까지 전시되고 있습니다.
모든 작품이 다 전시되는 것은 아니지만 전시된 작품을 비롯한 여러 Gee's Bend퀼트 작품은 오른쪽 상단 링크에서 감상하실 수 있습니다.
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