Art
Hump Day
- Item Number
- 17
- Estimated Value
- 300 USD
- Sold
- 750 USD to ki7707878
Item Description
Embroidered cotton, hand dyed burlap and re-purposed dresser cloth and African Wax batiks
37" Wide x 39" High
Quilter | Colleen Ansbaugh
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This block was embroidered by a survivor of gender-based violence in the African Country of Mali. It describes life in her village before she was attacked and expelled during conflict.
The block was made into a quilt in 2019 by Colleen Ansbaugh in Wisconsin. Colleen learned the basics of quilting from her mother, who was expert at crazy quilting. Colleen works in industrial textiles, where she tests upholstery for resistance to fire. She loves the idea of helping the Malian sisters to learn a skill that will earn them money.
In designing her quilt, Colleen was determined to avoid a simple square or rectangle and this accounts for the extended and curved square at the bottom right, as well as the uneven top quarter. She used the Drunkard’s Path quilting pattern for the circle and semicircle to further disrupt the sense of balance.
In making her quilts, Colleen dyes fiber and cloth by hand. She then adds more color with paint, silk screening, and felting. For this quilt, she used African cloth from a textile show in Chicago and left-overs from other quilt projects. She then brought out the brown and dun colors of the camel and sand with small pieces of red cloth and burlap. Antique dresser cloth material is used on the front side of the quilt.
All proceeds from this auction will be invested in a quilting project for GBV survivors in Mali. To donate visit our home page - www.advocacynet.org.
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