Project Description
I will research different types of quilts made for the purpose of commemoration, including Friendship, Album, and Mourning Quilts. I am interested in finding out how different quiltmakers have used their craft towards remembering, in terms of both the images and text that the quilt contains as well as its actual construction (especially concerning materials choices and piecing techniques). I will draw on my research to make a small quilt that is not only commemorative but that, like the rest of my artwork, questions the role, function, and process of memory.
Questions
What is memory?
Which types of quilts were made for the purpose of commemoration?
What materials were used or reused to make memory quilts? What is their significance?
Whom were memory quilts usually made for?
How is the commemoration of a person, place, event, or object represented in different quilts?
When were Friendship or commemorative quilts most popular (or, what is the time period I should focus my research on most)?
How can I represent the issues around memory in a quilt - what materials, subject matter and piecing techniques are appropriate?
I will research different types of quilts made for the purpose of commemoration, including Friendship, Album, and Mourning Quilts. I am interested in finding out how different quiltmakers have used their craft towards remembering, in terms of both the images and text that the quilt contains as well as its actual construction (especially concerning materials choices and piecing techniques). I will draw on my research to make a small quilt that is not only commemorative but that, like the rest of my artwork, questions the role, function, and process of memory.
Questions
What is memory?
Which types of quilts were made for the purpose of commemoration?
What materials were used or reused to make memory quilts? What is their significance?
Whom were memory quilts usually made for?
How is the commemoration of a person, place, event, or object represented in different quilts?
When were Friendship or commemorative quilts most popular (or, what is the time period I should focus my research on most)?
How can I represent the issues around memory in a quilt - what materials, subject matter and piecing techniques are appropriate?
