Art
In the Village
- Item Number
- 26
- Estimated Value
- 300 USD
- Leading Bid
- 100 USD
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
Embroidered cotton, commercial fabrics, machine quilting
19" Wide x 19" High
Quilter | Wendy Overly
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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 turned into a quilt by Wendy Overly in Massachusetts. Sister Artists is Wendy's first quilt challenge and she thought it would be fascinating to “support someone on the other side of the world who I will never meet.” After checking out the project online, Wendy was also entranced by the fact that the artists in the US and Mali share the same love of craft, regardless of lifestyles. She does not see the Malian artists as novices: “We were all trained by someone.”
In designing her quilt, Wendy imagined the Malian family working in the garden in the middle of a field. She wanted to make the surrounding land as bountiful as possible, and chose fabric that looked like fields of crops. Her only addition to the block itself was to quilt in the open space.
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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