Carnegie Art Gallery

From QuiltIndex

Physical address: Murchison Street, Newcastle

Mail address: Private Bag X6621, Newcastle

PH: +27 (0)34-328-7600

http://www.carnegie-art.co.za

For inquiries, contact: Judy Jordan, Curator, gallery@newcastle.co.za, TEL: +27 (0)34-328-7622; FAX: +27 (0) 34-312-1570

In addition to an excellent collection of contemporary art and craft, the gallery, housed in a building initially built as a Carnegie Library, is the home of Isiphethu, an arts-based economic development project that was begun in 1999 when, according to the Gallery’s website, “a group of women came together to sew a wall hanging for a Woman’s Day project organized by the Gallery…Each woman creates her own design, chooses her own subject, decides on the colors and creates pictures in a distinctive and individual style. All the embroideries tell stories, some are events in the lives of the women, others are legends and historical incidents and some reflect modern day living.” For more information on Isiphethu, go to http://www.carnegie-art.co.za/isiphethu_main.html.htm. To see samples of Isiphethu for sale, go to http://www.carnegie-art.co.za/isiphethu_shop.html.htm.

"This information originally gathered in 2010 by Marsha MacDowell, Michigan State University Museum, during research on quilt history in South Africa that was supported by a fellowship from the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at University of Nebraska-Lincoln with additional in-kind support from Michigan State University Museum."