Mary Lee Bendolph (born 1935) is an American quilt maker of the Gee's Bend Collective from Gee's Bend (Boykin), Alabama. Her work has been influential on subsequent quilters and artists and her quilts have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the country. Bendolph uses fabric from used clothing for quilting in appreciation of the "love and spirit" with old cloth.[1] Bendolph has spent her life in Gee's Bend and has had work featured in the Philadelphia Museum of Art as well as the Minneapolis Institute of Art in Minnesota.[2]
In 1999 the Los Angeles Times featured Bendolph in the Pulitzer Prize-winning article "Crossing Over", about the effort to reestablish ferry service across the Alabama River.[3][4]
^Art, Philadelphia Museum of. "Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt and African American Quiltmaking Traditions". www.philamuseum.org. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
^"Mary Lee Bendolph | Minneapolis Institute of Art". Retrieved January 28, 2017.
^"Mary Lee Bendolph | Souls Grown Deep Foundation". www.soulsgrowndeep.org. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
^Moehringer, J. R. (August 22, 1999). "Crossing Over". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
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