Olivia Joseph

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668 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 26 Feb

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Yeah, so I got into museum spaces more so for objects broadly, but I found that I was drawn to textiles.

And there was this one textile conservator that was super enthusiastic about it.

And I think interacting with that particular quilt up close and personal from a preservation perspective was very impactful there.

So the museum that I was working at at the time was the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

And so it's a history institution.

So I think when we're looking at these objects all of the time, it's through this historical lens.

And so when I was interacting one-on-one

with the objects, I think for me, what was in mind was what stories are being told through this object.

And so I remember at least the particular quilt that I brought up, and that was Gary Tyler.

So Gary Tyler is this African-American quilter who was actually wrongly convicted of a crime in, I believe, 1974.

So he spent around 42 years

in prison.

And so hearing that story was very interesting.

And it seems that he found his craft while in prison.

I remember reading that he did interact with textiles growing up, but it was really while he was in prison that he was

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