Thank you to afronews for an engaging look at a recent landmark acquisition at the Maryland Center for History and Culture--see link to the full story in our bio. "Abstract #1" by textile artist Elizabeth Talford Scott (1916 - 2011) is the first known piece attributed to a Black maker to join our world-renowned quilt collection. Stay tuned for more details on a February 2024 exhibition exploring Scott's artistic legacy in dialogue with Maryland's rich tradition of "crazy quilts" and new challenge works created by members of the African American Quilters of Baltimore.... "'Her quilts were unbound,' [Joyce Jane Scott] added. 'They were stories and they were reckonings about dreams, happenstance and things that may or may not happen. And they were done in a way that was not always figurative or uber-realistic. She believed in the realm of prayer and she believed that she could shape the viewer’s ideas by the way she laid down shapes and forms, hues, how dynamic they were, and her use ...