Sage Rogers, ATHICA Education Coordinator
$3.00 - $6.00 suggested donation includes
materials.
Thank you:
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Sunday, February 19th, 2012
02:00 PM
- 04:00 PM
Stitching Stars:
A Paper Quilt Event For Kids
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| Hope Hilton working on her installation The Recognitions: Mrs. Harriet Powers, Bible Quilt (Reproduction) (2012) |
Harriet Powers, 1898 |
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Schedule:
2:00 Storytelling with Hope Hilton
Hilton will read the children's
book Stitching Stars based on the life of Harriet Powers --
Athens' most famous quilt maker.
2:30 Gallery Tour with Hilton
2:45 Paper Quilt Making
Children will create a paper quilt square, with their very own
story!
 
Detail from Hope Hilton's,
Harriet Powers, Bible
Quilt (1885-1886)
The
Recognitions: Mrs. Harriet Powers, Bible Quilt
(Reproduction)
(2012)
ATHICA education Director Sage Rogers, along with Art
Education graduate students from the Lamar Dodd School of Art,
will be on hand to help children with the activity.
Children of all ages welcome,
parents with very young children are strongly encouraged to
stay.
ABOUT THE ARTWORK INSPIRING THE EVENT:
This children's art appreciation event was inspired by Hope
Hilton's installation The Recognitions: Mrs. Harriet Powers'
Bible Quilt (2012), in the current Southern exhibition. With it
Hope Hilton pays tribute to Harriet Powers (1837-1910), a
formerly enslaved African Native American who lived in
Winterville, GA circa 1898, as does Hilton now. In 1885 and
1898, Powers created two famous storytelling quilts now in the
collections of the National Museum of American History of the
Smithsonian and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Powers
Quilts are aesthetically reminiscent of Henri Matisse's
portfolio, Jazz, although they predate it by 60 years. They
merge biblical motifs with recorded celestial events of the
19th century such as eclipses and meteor showers.
Referencing the Smithsonian quilt, Hilton overlays scraps of
vellum to "recreate her [Powers's] labor" 102 years after her
death. Reenactment is the master dynamic of The Recognitions, a
series Hilton describes as "an experiment in social
architecture." It began in 2007 after her grandmother gave her
a photocopy of a letter describing an enslaved and
hearing-impaired African named Henry who walked sixty miles,
from Huntsville, Alabama to Shelbyville, Tennessee, to announce
the birth of her great-great-grandmother. Hilton walked the
same route in 2007, visiting sites associated with her
family, the place where her grandmother was born, family
cemeteries, photographing and journaling in her blog as she
traveled. These mimetic journeys, including the ephemeral
re-enactment of the Powers Quilt, are traces of atonement
(at-one-ment) that expose Hilton's struggles with space and
place, the ambiguities of representation, and the purposes of
art itself.
Participating Artists
Artist Bio:
Hope Hilton is an internationally exhibited conceptual artist;
she relocated from New York to Winterville, Georgia in the
summer of 2010. She has exhibited and performed at ATHICA three
times and we welcome her return. She will be installing a new
work made for this exhibit, a reconstruction of Harriet Powers
famed Bible Quilt, made of vellum and various paper scraps.
Harriett Powers, a former slave from Athens, created two
picture quilts in 1886 and 1898, now in the collection of the
Smithsonian American Museum and the Boston Museum of Fine
Arts.
Education Coordinator Bio:
Sage Rogers is an Athens native, and graduated from UGA with a BA in
Comparative Literature and from Brandeis University with an MA
in Cultural Production with a focus on Art and Education. While
in Boston completing her Masters degree, she interned at the
Boston Museum of Fine Arts for the education department and
worked for Dot Art, a non-profit center for the visual arts.
She is currently working on a PhD in Art Education at the Lamar
Dodd School of Art.
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