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Podcast: EMPIRE LINES
Episode: The Quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend (20th Century-Now) (EMPIRE LINES x Royal Academy)
Description: Raina Lampkins-Felder, Curator at the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, weaves together the histories of Black artists who stayed in Southern America during the Great Migration, like the Quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend.Black artists based in the American South have always forged unique artistic practices - as multigenerational as multimedia in form. Using found and ‘reclaimed’ materials, these sculptures, paintings, drawings, and quilts speak to their makers’ individual ingenuity - and the enslavement, Jim Crow-era segregation, and institutionalised racism which continues to colour America’s past and present.Geographically isolated, but well-connected within communities, artists like Thorn...