Take an audio tour of "Quilted Connections: Sisterhood in Cloth," an exhibition at The Peale, Baltimore's Community Museum and the oldest museum building in the United States! Listen to master quilters Rosalind Robinson, Sandra Smith, and Glenda Richardson talk about their quilting techniques and the fascinating stories that surround their craft. Includes 17 stops with the artists. The exhibition was on view at The Peale from December 1, 2022-January 29, 2023.
Rosalind Robinson (00:00): Next quilt. Moving from Iceland, I'm going to take you into the warmth of sunshine, and with the last quilt, which I call "Mama." I think that "Mama" evokes warmth. It's English paper piece daisies, or hexagons, that's what they are. Hexagon daisies. And all the daisies are hand-stitched together, then the daisies are hand-stitched onto a piece of white cloth, and then the white cloth are sewn together as blocks, and assembled into this quilt.
(00:56): But there's a lot of hand stitching in this quilt. And each of the center hexagons, they're yellow centers, which evoke warmth, and warm feelings of a mother, a grandmother, a great-grandmother, godmother, some person in your life who gave you comfort and warmth. And that's what I want you to feel when you see this quilt. It's called "Mama." And that concludes my voice tour of my exhibition at the Peale, and I hope that you come to see it. I am overjoyed at having an exhibition here at the Peale. I'm humbly overjoyed, I'm thankful, and I love this space, and I'm very thankful to be here.
