Georgia Quilt Project
From QuiltIndex
Contact: Georgia Quilt Project
Documentation Dates: 1988 (in process)
Parameters: statewide, no cut-off date for quilts
Total Quilts: 8,500+
Total Documentation Days (Number of documentation days held): 73
Publication information (if any):
- Georgia Quilts: Piecing Together Georgia's History. Georgia Quilt Project and Anita Weintraub. Nashville, TN, Rutledge Hill Press, 1997.
- Patterns: A Celebration of Georgia's Quilting Traditions; The Madison-Morgan Cultural Center, 1990.
- Burdick, Nancilu B. Legacy: The Story of Talula Gilbert Bottoms and Her Quilts. Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press, 1988. [Biography of a Georgia quiltmaker]
- Fisk, Carol; Versfeld, Porter; Gray, Melissa. Georgia Quilts [videorecording]: Stitches and Stories. GPTV; written, produced & edited by Carol Fisk; videographer Porter Versfeld; narrator, Melissa Gray. VHS video
- Simpson, Yaalieth Adrienne. African-American female identity in the 19th century: the individual and cultural empowerment of Harriet Powers' Bible quilts [Georgia]. Dissertation in support of the EdD, Columbia University Teachers College, 2003. Advisor: Leo-Paul Cyr. 213 pages.
Database?: The Atlanta History Center holds the documentation records and images.
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