Art
Cooking at Home
- Item Number
- 38
- Estimated Value
- 300 USD
- Sold
- 105 USD to gm1b90a93
- Number of Bids
- 2 - Bid History
Item Description
Embroidered cotton, fabric markers, machine appliqué
15" Wide x 16" High
Quilter | Hope Barton
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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 Hope Barton in Connecticutt. Hope has visited Sierra Leone and Tanzania in Africa, but was mainly drawn to Sister Artists after handling cases of gender-based violence as a nurse: “Therapy often means just listening.” Making a quilt from the Malian block was, for Hope, a way to help the Malian sister to express herself: “I would love to have met her!”
Hope’s quilt design satisfies her passion for color, which she describes as “almost visceral.” Her main goal was to sharpen the colors in her Malian block “to enhance, not change.” With this in mind Hope used fabric markers to bring out the colors. She added the red and green bouquet from fabric that picks up the green and red in the main block. Hope used machine quilting to complete her 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.
Donated By:
Hope Barton
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