Gee’s Bend Quilts and Beyond: Public Opening

Exhibit Public Opening

Jazz by Crosscurrent, Reception hosted by the Women’s Board of the Museum of New Mexico.

Twelve dramatically designed, richly colored, improvisational quilts created by Mary Lee Bendolph and her family members — her mother Aolar Mosely, her daughter Essie B. Pettway, and her daughter-in-law Louisiana P. Bendolph — will be presented alongside complex and evocative found object sculptures by noted African American self-taught artist Thornton Dial and visionary "yard art" artist Lonnie Holley.