Cecelia Tapplette Pedescleaux , also known as Cely , (born August 6, 1945) is an African-American quilter of traditional quilts and art, inspired by historians, other African-Americans quilters , and the quilt design was used during the Underground Railroad to communicate the message to the slaves looking for freedom. The blankets have been shown in China, France, Washington, D.C., New Orleans, and elsewhere in the United States. A one-person show of 75 blankets is shown at Le Musée de e People Free Color (2013-2014).
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Careers
Pedescleaux's interest in textile art began as a child when he began to knit and knit. In the late 1960s, he began to make quilts based on traditional designs. As he reads designs and other books about American slaves, his designs are Afro-centric. He has created a blanket based on African art, such as a brightly colored blanket with the symbol of Ashanti Adinkra Gye Nyame, which means "receiving God", from Ghana shown at the Inspiration Exhibition curated by Don Marshall and Sara Hollis at the Center for Contemporary Art.. The Book, Hidden in the Ordinary View, by Jacqueline Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard, Jr., a Howard University professor, tells how the quilts were used to document the secret messages and routes used by slaves to navigate Subway Rail. This book is an inspiration for Pedescleaux, who researches African-American quilters and quilt designs related to the Underground Railroad and produces many designs.
She is inspired by Mary McLeod Bethune's works and David C. Driscoll's books, Carolyn L. Mazloomi, Faith Ringgold, Cuesta Benberry, Roland Freeman, Gladys-Marie Fry, and Maude Wahlham. Pedescleaux has also been inspired by the multicultural city of New Orleans with Africans, Caribbean, Hispanics, Europeans and Native Americans. He said the blanket "consists of 75 percent research, 15 percent fabric, and 10 percent heart". He has created traditional blankets and art, using yarn paintings, beads, trapunto, patchwork, wax batik, photo transfers, cloth collage, flower fabrics and three-dimensional figures, and traditional African American knitting techniques such as quilting strips.
About his work, he said,
It's almost like a warning to my ancestors. Every time I work on a traditional pattern, my mind returns to the past and how difficult it is to get a cloth, find time to sew, and how much to use a blanket to be completed. Then the joys of life meet the difficulties, and the traditional pattern takes on a wonderful new life.
He has lectured, demonstrated, and taught quilting throughout the United States and formed a quilting group at the Beecher Memorial United Church of Christ in New Orleans has created more than 100 quilt for the Child Welfare institution in 2013. The blanket he made from the uprising in < i> La Amistad was held at the Amistad Research Center.
Nine of its covers are shown in the exhibition "A Patchwork of Cultures: Traveling Exhibit from Louisiana to France" sponsored by the French Patchwork Association at the US Embassy in Paris from 2008 to 2009. The DAR Museum in Washington, DC showcased a blanket in 2010. at the exhibition "Honoring Contemporary Contemporary Castles from France and America". His work is included in "The Sum of Many Parts: 25 Quilt makers in 21st Century America" ​​held in Beijing at the US Embassy (2012-2013) and later at the State Historical Museum of Iowa (2013-2014). The one-man show, "Why I Believe: A African-American Perspective of Quilting", of its 75 quilts is featured in Le Musée de E © © de Free People of Color (2013-2014). Gem of Faith , representing "the complexity and simplicity of the people of the world, and their faith", is displayed at the exhibition "Imago Mundi - Reparations: Contemporary Art from New Orleans" (2014-2015) at the New Art Museum Orleans.
Pictures made by children at Reliance Center in Houston, Texas are used in the Katrina Kids Quilt , shown at The New York Arts Club in New York City. His work has been featured in galleries and museums, including Ogden's Southern Art Museum, New Orleans Art Museum (NOMA), New Orleans Museum of African American Art, Ashe Cultural Arts Center, Jazz & amp; Heritage Foundation Gallery, Center for Contemporary Art, and Stella Jones Gallery. His work has also been shown at Southern University, Tulane University, Southeastern University, and Xavier University.
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See also
- Treasure
- Underground Railroad Quilt
- Women from the Color Quilter Network
References
Further reading
- African American quilting
- Kyra E. Hicks (2002). Black Thread: An African Quilting Organic Pocketbook . McFarland & amp; Company.
- Roland L. Freeman; Thomas Nelson (1996). A Communion of the Spirits: African-American Quilters, Preservers, and Their Stories .
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