Gee's Bend

Right now at the Boise Art Museum, we have been taking down an exhibition and getting ready to put up an exhibit of quilts from Gee's Bend. If you haven't heard of these, it is a great story. A group of ladies in the small, poor, town of Alabama make these quilts. A guy "discovered" them and started promoting them as art. The ladies use whatever fabrics they can find and do most of the stitching by hand, I think. They don't seem to consider them art, just something they do. I am very excited to have this exhibit here and to be able to see the quilts up close. It won't be open for another week or two as the quilts have not yet arrived in Boise.