Fabric of a Nation home Kent Monkman

Kent Monkman

large and small scale custom macrame

In her many comics and illustrated works

each with its own story to tell

This book challenges many lasting misconceptions about nineteenth-century art

Fabric of a Nation home Kent MonkmanHardcover 240 pages 9780878468768 24. 7 x 26. 6 cm Made by Americans of European, African, Native and Hispanic heritage, these quilts and bedcovers range from family heirlooms to acts of political protest, each with its own story to tell A mother stitches a few lines of prayer into a bedcover for her son serving in the Union army during the Civil War. A formerly enslaved African American woman creates a quilt populated by Biblical figures alongside