Joe Cunningham
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333 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 5 Mar
Joe Cunningham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And they're like, okay, well, grandma's got a way to do it, but I have to make my own way to do it.
And within that, maybe I'll turn the corner.
Maybe I'll go around the edge.
Maybe I'll find some red.
And so you see kind of within their work, some of these amazing artistic moments that are very genuine and a microcosm of tiny reactions to their community, as opposed to having the entire art world crashing down on you at any moment that you have to sort of say, oh, am I as good as
Did I make it enough?
Are we in the red era, et cetera?
And so the Gee's Bend quilts and those quilters, their aesthetic is one that I really lean to to look at kind of a purity of making.
And I find it to be so interesting and wonderful for some of those aspects.
You know what?
So I do want to say as an aside, in the particular case of quilting, there is a beauty to the gendered aspect of it as a culture.
It's important for things to not be gendered because you don't want to put a barrier to people's entry point.
But it's also beautiful to remember that the reason that quilting was gendered was this moment of time when women were getting agency, right?
really culturally in the United States, women were kind of allowed bank accounts and allowed to vote, heaven forbid.
And all of these amazing things were finally happening and quilting happened at that moment.
And so within quilting, there were these groups of women who could get together and have conversations, have community and earn some money and keep that money.
It's less about
pushing men out as much as it sort of saying, this was a sacred place for women.
And that's very important.
And I love that.
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