Meet the Quilters

Tucked along a wide bend in the Alabama River is a small town known as Gee’s Bend. Most residents in this village trace their lineage back to slaves and shareholders of the Pettway Plantation.

The Gee’s Bend Quilters have produced countless patchwork masterpieces, with the oldest examples dating from the 1920s. Enlivened by a visual imagination that extends the expressive boundaries of the quilt genre, these astounding creations constitute a crucial chapter in the history of American craft.