Note: Asterisk signifies publications displayed in the exhibit or owned by the University at Albany Libraries. These items were purchased with the support of "The Frank and Dorothy Pogue Endowed Library Fund for African American Studies".
Benberry, Cuesta. Always There: The African American Presence in American Quilts. Louisville: The Kentucky Quilt Project, Inc., 1992.
----------, Patchwork of Pieces: An Anthology of Early Quilt Stories, 1845-1940
Paducah: Collector Books, 1993.
*----------, A Piece of My Soul: Quilts by Black Arkansans. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000.
*Callahan, Nancy.The Freedom Quilting Bee. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1987.
Christopher, Robin and David Knight. The Underground Railroad: Connections to Freedom and Science. Washington, D.C.: NASA, 1999.
Dobard, Raymond G. "Frugal and Fashionable." Connnecting Stitches: Quilts in Illinois Life : papers from the symposium held at the Illinois State Museum, Springfield, January 1994 and at the Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, July 9, 1994. Eds. Janice Tauer Wass and Cheryl Kennedy. Springfield, Ill.: The Museum, 1995.
*---------- and Jacqueline Tobin. Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts & the Underground Railroad. New York: Doubleday, 2000.
----------, Subject-matter in the Work of Käthe Kollwitz : An Investigation of Death Motifs in Relation to Traditional Iconographic Patterns. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University, 1975.
Ferris, William. Afro-American Folk Art and Crafts. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1983.
Freeman, Roland L., The Arabbers of Baltimore. Centreville, Md.: Tidewater Publishers, 1989.
*----------, A Communion of the Spirits African-American Quilters, Preservers, & Their Stories. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, Oct. 1996.
*----------, Mule Train Journal A Journey of Hope Remembered. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1998.
*----------, Margaret Walker's "For My People" A Tribute. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1992.
----------, "Quilts from the Mississippi heartland." American
Visions 1:3 (1986): 28-32.
----------, Roland L. Freeman, a Baltimore portfolio, 1968-1979 : a Black photographer looks at his hometown. Catonsville, Md.: University of Maryland Baltimore County Library, 1979.
----------, Something to keep you warm: the Roland Freeman Collection of Black American quilts from the Mississippi Heartland : an exhibition at the Mississippi State Historical Museum, a division of the Department of Archives and History, June 14-August 9, 1981. Jackson: Mississippi Department of Archives & History, 1981.
----------, Southern Roads - City Pavements Photographs of Black Americans. New York: International Center of Photography, 1981.
Fry, Gladys-Marie. Broken Star: Post-Civil War Quilts Made by Black Women.
Dallas Museum of African-American Life and Culture, 1986.
----------, Dolls! by African-American artists: Kimberly Camp, Julee Dickerson, Annie Dickerson, Joyce Scott, Elizabeth Scott, Francine Haskins. Winston-Salem, NC: Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem State University, 1992.
*----------, Night riders in Black folk history. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975.
* ----------, Stitched From the Soul : Slave Quilts From the Ante-Bellum South. New York: Dutton Studio Books : in association with the Museum of American Folk Art, 1990.
* ----------, The System of Psychological Control. Negro American Literature
Forum (Autumn 1969): 72.
* ----------, and Leone, Mark P. "III - Hybrid Material Forms - Conjuring in the Big House Kitchen: Art Interpretation of African American Belief Systems Based on the Uses of Archaeology and Folklore," The Journal of American folklore. 112:445 (1999): 372-404.
Gross, Joyce and others. 20th-Century Quilts, 1900-1970 Women Make Their Mark. Paducah: Collector Books, 1998.
*Grudin, Eva Ungar. Stitching Memories: African American Story Quilts. Williamstown, Massachusetts: Williams College Museum of Art, 1989.
Leone, Mark P. and Gladys-Marie Fry. "III - Hybrid Material Forms - Conjuring in the Big House Kitchen: Art Interpretation of African American Belief Systems Based on the Uses of Archaeology and Folklore," The Journal of American folklore. 112:445 (1999): 372-404.
Leon, Eli. "African Influence on American Block-style Quilts." African Impact on the Material Culture of the Americas : a Conference Presented by Diggs Gallery at Winston-Salem State University, Old Salem, the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, May 30-June 2, 1996. Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, 1998. 1-18.
----------, "African Transformations in Afro-American Whole-quilt Patterns." Traditions in Cloth: Afro-American Quilts/West African Textiles . Los Angeles: California: Afro-American Museum, 1986. 16-21.
*----------, Arbie Williams Transforms the Britches Quilt. California: Regents of
the University of California and the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, UCSC, 1993.
----------, "Cross-strip Patterning in African Textiles and African-American Quilts."Surface Design Journal 15:1, 6-8, 38.
----------, "Cut It Down the Middle and Send It to the Other Side." Threads 19 (1988): 70-75.
----------, "Great feelings: the mother/daughter connection in African-American quiltmaking." Textile Fibre Forum. Mittagong, Australia: The Australian Forum for Textile Arts 8:26, 1989. 9-11.
* -----------, Models in the Mind: African Prototypes in American Patchwork:
January 15-March 29, 1992. Winston-Salem, N.C.: Diggs Gallery: Winston-Salem State University, 1992.
----------, "Models in the Mind: African Influences on American Quilts." Piecework 5:4 (July-August 1997): 34-38.
* ----------, and Sharon Risedorph. No Two Alike :African-American Improvisations on a Traditional Patchwork Pattern. Columbia, S.C.: South Carolina State Museum, 1998.
*----------, Showing Up: Maximum-contrast African-American Quilts. Richmond, CA : Richmond Art Center, 1996.
* ----------, Something Else to See: Improvisational Bordering Styles in African-American Quilts. Amherst, Mass.: University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1997.
------------, "Wrapping Home Around Me: How Patchwork Quilt Became a Medium for the Expression of African Values." Rambling on My Mind : Black Folk Art of the Southwest. Dallas, Tex: Museum of African-American Life and Culture, 1987. 18-33.
------------, and Hanna Regev. Quilts From the 'Hood: East Bay African American Improvisational Quilts, a Teacher's Companion. Oakland, CA: The African American Museum & Library at Oakland, 1997.
-----------, Who'd a Thought It: Improvisation in African-American Quiltmaking: December 31, 1987 to February 28, 1988. San Francisco, Calif.: San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, 1990.
-----------, "The Francis Sheppard Fours Quilt." A Common Thread: Fiber Art From Nevada, 1991. Las Vegas: A Common Thread, 1991. 3-4.
-----------, "'Wrapping Home around Me': How the Patchwork Quilt Became a Medium for the Expression of African Values." Rambling on My Mind: Black Folk Art of the Southwest. Dallas: Museum of African American Life and Culture, 1987. 18-33.
MacDowell, Marsha L., editor. African American Quiltmaking in Michigan. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press in collaboration with the Michigan State University Museum, 1997.
Macneal, Patricia M. and others. Quilts from Appalachia Exhibition Catalogue.
University Park: Palmer Museum of Art, 1988.
Marston, Gwen and others. Mary Schafer & Her Quilts. East Lansing: Michigan State University Museum, 1990.
*Mazloomi, Carolyn, and others. Spirits of the Cloth: Contemporary African American Quilts. New York: Crown Publishing Group, 1998.
Pershing, Linda. The Ribbon around the Pentagon : Peace by Piecemakers. Knoxville: American Folklore Society, University of Tennessee Press, 1996.
Picton, John and John Mack. African Textiles. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1989.
*Tobin, Jacqueline and Raymond G. Dobard. Hidden in Plain View: the Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad. New York, NY: Anchor Books, 2000.
Wahlman, Maude S. African American Quilters. Chicago, IL: Rosenthal Art
Slides, Inc., 1984.
----------, Signs & Symbols African Images in African-American Quilts. East Rutherford: Studio Books, July 1993.
---------- and Peabody, Rebecca. Primitivism and the Post-colonial Aesthetic: the Creative Journey of a Belizian Artist, 1999.
----------, A Profile of Cultures: an Exhibition of African Textiles and
Clothing Greensboro, N.C.: The Gallery, 198u.
Juvenile Books
Flournoy, Valerie. The Patchwork Quilt. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1985.
Hopkinson, Deborah. Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
Exhibits
Amish and African American Quilts. Intercourse, PA: People's Place Quilt
Museum, 2000.
Mazloomi, Carolyn and David Revere McFadden, co-curators. Spirits of the Cloth: Contemporary Quilts by African American Artists. Washington, D.C.: Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian. October 2000- January 2001.
Video
Recycled, Reseen: Folk Art from the Global Scrap Heap. Videorecording. Santa Fe, NM: Museum of International Folk Art, Crystal Productions, dist., 1997.
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University at Albany
May 1, 2001
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