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Pecolia Warner
Pecolia Warner (March 9, 1901 – March 1983) was an American quiltmaker. Early life Pecolia Leola Deborah Jackson was born in a log house near Bentonia, Mississippi, and raised in Yazoo City, the ninth of eleven children. She learned to make quilts from her mother Katie (a trained teacher) and other older women in her community. "It's a gift from God to be able to do this," she explained. "That's my gift, that's my talent. Making quilts, that's my calling." Career Warner worked various jobs as a domestic servant in Chicago, Illinois and New Orleans, Louisiana before retiring home to Mississippi in 1968. She quilted in the evenings when she worked full-time. Warner used color with personal meanings attached: red, for example, meant anger or violence to Warner, and she considered it a color to use carefully. Her compositions have been linked to West African art, and to the "improvisational aesthetic" of jazz. In 1977, director William R. Ferris featured Warner in the documenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bentonia, Mississippi
Bentonia is a town in Yazoo County, Mississippi, United States. The population as of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census was 319. The Bentonia School of blues singing and guitar-playing is named for Bentonia. History Bentonia began as a postal town along the Illinois Central Railway. It is named for an early resident. Bentonia had a population of 167 in 1900. Bentonia Blues The Bentonia School, "Bentonia-style" or "Bentonia Blues" describe a country blues style that originated in and immediately around Bentonia. The annual Bentonia Blues Festival is held in June in Bentonia. The festival's stage is set up in front of the Blue Front Cafe, which is operated by Jimmy "Duck" Holmes who, as a young man, learned the local style from Bentonia Blues musician Jack Owens (blues singer), Jack Owens. Three markers on the Mississippi Blues Trail are located in Bentonia: one each to musicians Skip James and Jack Owens (blues singer), Jack Owens, and one located at the Blue Front C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Wright Mohamed
Ethel Wright Mohamed (October 13, 1906 – February 15, 1992) was an American artist, best known for her embroidered scenes of country life. She is sometimes compared to " Grandma Moses," both for her folk art style of illustration and her late start as an artist. Early life Ethel Lee Wright was born on a farm in Webster County, Mississippi, the eldest child of Elijah Wright and Nina Bell Ramsay Wright. She learned to embroider as a child, from her mother. As a teenager she worked at a bakery in Shaw, Mississippi. Career Ethel Wright Mohamed returned to embroidery after she was widowed in 1965. "There is just a soothing music as the needle comes through the cloth," she told the ''Tuscaloosa News'' in 1992. She embroidered elaborate scenes based on her own memories and family life. Her colorful works found a local audience through family members, and soon they were exhibited in regional museums as folk art. In 1974, her embroidered art was part of the Smithsonian Institution's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Bentonia, Mississippi
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1983 Deaths
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1901 Births
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American Artisans
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Sandra McPherson
Sandra Jean McPherson (born August 2, 1943) is an American poet. Born in San Jose, California, McPherson received her B.A. at San José State University, and studied at the University of Washington, with Elizabeth Bishop and David Wagoner. She considers her "literary mothers" to be Elizabeth Bishop, Carolyn Kizer, and Adrienne Rich. She has taught at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, Haystack Portland State University, University of California at Berkeley Spring 1981 or 1982 as Roberta Holloway Visiting Lecturer, and the Art of the Wild Conference. She is a Professor Emerita at the University of California at Davis. Having been a featured poet on the poetry circuits of Ohio, Kentucky, and Connecticut, she has also read in most states: Washington D.C., Louisiana, Georgia, Indiana, Utah, Texas, Iowa, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Florida, Delaware, Virginia, Arkansas, Alabama, and California. Her father, Walt McPherson, was head basketball coach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Mary Taylor
Sarah Mary Taylor (August 12, 1916 – 2000) was an African American quiltmaker from Mississippi whose work attracted interest in the 1970s. Life Sarah Mary Taylor was born on August 12, 1916 in Anding, Mississippi. She learned quilting from her mother Pearlie Posey when she was young. She lived on plantations in the Mississippi Delta and worked as a housekeeper, cook, and field hand. Late in her life, Taylor was forced to retire due to her failing health. She then earned income through quilting, using the skirts of dresses to create pieced quilts. Taylor garnered more interest in her appliquéd quilts after Pecolia Warner's quilts were the subject of University of Mississippi professors academic interest in the 1970s. Both Taylor and her mother created quilt and pillow designs that employed red ''Vodun'' doll-like figures. Her ''Mermaid'' quilt (earlier known as ''Rabbit'') is evocative of the mojo hand, featuring blue hands adjacent to red squares and vodou figures. Accordi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Caucus For Art Lifetime Achievement Award
The Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award was established under the presidency of Lee Ann Miller (1978–80). Joan Mondale, artist and wife of vice-president Walter Mondale, helped to secure approval for a national award honoring women's achievements in the arts, and Jimmy Carter presided over the first Women's Caucus for Art award ceremony in the Oval Office in 1980.Eleanor DickinsonThe History of the Women's Caucus for Art Retrieved 7 March 2013. The WCA Honor Awards Ceremony has occurred annually most years since then.Past WCA Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients Women's Caucus for Art 40th Anniversary Celebration: 2012 Honor Awards See also * List of media awards honoring women This list of media awards honoring women is an index to articles about notable awards honoring women. The list includes general, literary and music awards for women. It excludes awards for actresses, including film awards for lead actress and ... References {{Feminist art moveme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theora Hamblett
Theora Hamblett (January 15, 1895 – March 6, 1977) was an American painter, one of the first Mississippi folk artists to achieve national prominence. Hamblett's paintings can be divided into three categories: memory paintings, dream paintings, and landscape paintings. Early life Theora Alton Hamblett was born 15 January 1895, in Paris, Mississippi. Her father Samuel was a Civil War veteran, who was 72 years old when Theora was born. She was educated at Lafayette County Agricultural High School and at Blue Mountain College. .Lee Kogan, "Theora Hamblett," in Gerard C. Wertkin, ed., ''Encyclopedia of American Folk Art'' (Routledge 2003): 243–244. Hamblett was raised in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yazoo City, Mississippi
Yazoo City is a U.S. city in Yazoo County, Mississippi. It was named after the Yazoo River, which, in turn was named by the French explorer Robert La Salle in 1682 as "Rivière des Yazous" in reference to the Yazoo tribe living near the river's mouth. It is the county seat of Yazoo County and the principal city of the Yazoo City Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the larger Jackson–Yazoo City Combined Statistical Area. According to the 2010 census, the population was 11,403. The most important industry in 2021 is a group of federal prisons. History The community now known as Yazoo City was founded in 1824 with the name Hannan's Bluff. It was later renamed Manchester, then changed to Yazoo City in 1841. Yazoo City became the county seat in 1849. A yellow fever epidemic struck Yazoo City in 1853. During the American Civil War, the Confederate ironclad CSS ''Arkansas'' was completed at a makeshift shipyard in Yazoo City after the Confederate loss of New Orleans an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eudora Welty
Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer, novelist and photographer who wrote about the American South. Her novel ''The Optimist's Daughter'' won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Order of the South. She was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America. Her house in Jackson, Mississippi has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public as a house museum. Biography Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on April 13, 1909, the daughter of Christian Webb Welty (1879–1931) and Mary Chestina (Andrews) Welty (1883–1966). She grew up with younger brothers Edward Jefferson and Walter Andrews. Her mother was a schoolteacher. Welty soon developed a love of reading reinforced by her mother, who believed that "any room in our house, at any time in the day, was there to read in, or to be read t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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