Quilts and other textiles appear in departments across the High, including Decorative Arts and Design and Modern and Contemporary Art, and are increasingly represented in the Folk and Self-Taught Art collection. Black quilting traditions, including those that flourished in the remote community of Boykin, Alabama, also known as Gee’s Bend, are a focus of the Folk and Self-Taught Art department’s ongoing research and collecting initiatives.
Katherine Jentleson
Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art