Agatha Bennett (1919–2006) was an American artist. She is associated with the

Gee's Bend Boykin, also known as Gee's Bend, is an African American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The te ...

quilting collective, alongside her mother-in-law, Delia Bennett. Her work is included in the collection of the

High Museum of Art The High Museum of Art (colloquially the High) is the largest museum for visual art in the Southeastern United States. Located in Atlanta, Georgia (on Peachtree Street in Midtown, the city's arts district), the High is 312,000 square feet (28, ...

Early life and family

Bennett was born in Gee's Bend at the Herbert Hall Wilkinson Plantation. She was raised by her grandparents, Emma and Jacob Coleman. She and Rev. Pernell Bennett married in 1940 and raised 14 children together subsistence farming, working for canning factories, and wood mills.

Quilt maker

Bennett was a member of the Gee's Bend quilting collective.

Legacy

Through interviews with her husband, Souls Grown Deep Foundation documented Agatha's personal life and development as a quilter.

References

1919 births 2006 deaths 20th-century American artists 20th-century American women artists Gee's Bend quilters African-American women artists 20th-century African-American women 20th-century African-American artists 21st-century African-American artists 21st-century African-American women {{us-artist-stub