Qunnie Pettway (1943–2010) was an American artist. She worked for the Freedom Quilting Bee and is associated with the Gee's Bend group of quilters.[1][2][3] Her mother, Candis Pettway, taught her to quilt, and she passed the skill on to her daughter Loretta Pettway Bennett. She specialized in making traditional quilt patterns out of scraps she brought home from the Bee.[4][5]
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QunniePettway (1943–2010) was an American artist. She worked for the Freedom Quilting Bee and is associated with the Gee's Bend group of quilters. Her...
Joanna Pettway (1924 - 1993) was an American quilt artist and daughter of Gees Bend quilter Martha Jane Pettway. Pettway was born in 1924 in Gees Bend...
organization for over twenty years. Other important founding members were Minder Pettway Coleman, Aolar Carson Mosely (pronounced a-O-lur), Mattie Clark Ross, Mary...
Loretta Pettway Bennett (born December 29, 1960) is an American artist. She is associated with the Freedom Quilting Bee, where her mother, QunniePettway, worked...
Belinda Pettway. Annie Bell Pettway was the oldest daughter, and second oldest child, of Clement Pettway and Cherokee Pettway. Her father became sick and...
Louella Pettway (1921–2006), also known as Luella Pettway, was an American artist. She is associated with the Gee's Bend quilting collective and the Freedom...
Deborah Pettway Young (1916–1997) was an American artist associated with the Gee's Bend group of quilters. Pronounced "D-bora", Deborah Pettway Young was...
collective, alongside her mother, Candis Pettway, and her sisters QunniePettway and Edwina Pettway. Her work Blocks and Strips (2003) is in the permanent collection...
quilters, alongside her daughters QunniePettway, Sally Mae Pettway, and Edwina Pettway. Candis Mosely married Tank Pettway and together they raised sixteen...
learned to quilt from her mother, Candis Pettway, alongside her sisters QunniePettway and Sally Mae Pettway. Her quilts are known for mixing the Gee's...
Pearlie Kennedy Pettway (1920–1982) was an American quilter. She was among the quilters of Gee's Bend. Her works are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
Emma Lee Pettway Campbell (1928–2002) was an American artist associated with the Gee's Bend group of quilters. She was included in the 2013 History Refused...
Martha Jane Pettway (1898–2003) was an American artist associated with the Gee's Bend group of quilters. Pettway was born in Gee's Bend, Alabama and lived...
brother. Pettway spend some of her childhood under her Aunt Candis and Uncle Tank Pettway's roof. There she grew up alongside her cousins QunniePettway and...
of Art. Mary Elizabeth was born in Boykin, Alabama to Reverend Spurllin Pettway and his wife on a sharecropping and subsistence farm. Their main crops...
Alabama, Young was one of twelve children born to Lula and Albert Pettway. Albert Pettway grew cotton, corn, peas, sweet potatoes, and sorghum cane. Young...
Nettie Pettway Young (1916–2010) was an American artist. She is associated with the Gee's Bend quilting collective and was an assistant manager of the...
Arlonzia Pettway (1923–2008) was an American artist associated with the Gee's Bend group of quilters. She began quilting at age 13. In 2006, her quilt...
Missouri Pettway (1902-1981) was an American artist. She is associated with the Gee's Bend quilting collective. In 2020, the National Gallery of Art acquired...
Mensie Lee Pettway (born 1939) is an American artist associated with the Gee's Bend group of quilters. Her work is included in the collection of the National...
at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Louisiana Bendolph was born to Rita Mae Pettway and Samuel Small. Bendolph grew up on a farm, along with her two siblings...
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