Olivia Joseph
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668 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 26 Feb
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And to hear these magical voices singing spirituals, it was too much.
So before that, the women that I learned from, starting in 1979, they had this idea that a quilt should be this highly engineered item where all four corners are, you know, it's symmetrical is the basic idea.
If you have a triangle, then all three of those points need to be sharp and accurate and so on.
And everything was so tightly controlled and it was all about the structure, structure, structure.
Since the Gee's Bend revolution, since those quilts, they exploded on the scene, a lot of the old-time quilt makers were just outraged.
Their stitches are not even small.
They're not trying to make tiny stitches, and their corners are cut off, and they're just...
It's outrageous.
And of course, people from the art world then thought, oh, yeah, these look like modern art.
And so they became highly collectible and famous.
There were postage stamps made in the early part of the century of the Gee's Bend quilts.
I mean, they became very, very popular.
successful.
I got a grant one time because I wanted to go there and I did.
I went and quilted with them for a week.
I met them when they were here in San Francisco.
They had a show at the de Young and Lucy Mingo wrote her phone number by the picture of her quilt in the book and said, call me and come and quilt with us.
And so I did.
I mean, it was like going to the Beatles house.
It was so great because it was quilting the way the closest that I'll ever experience what it was like 200 years ago.
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