by Frances Phillips | Sep 23, 2018 | 2013, News, Traditional Arts
Fashioned as swing coats, Oakland fabric artist Patricia A. Montgomery’s innovative quilts feature stories of heroines of the Civil Rights movement. The collection, Honoring the Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement, now may be seen at the San Jose Museum of...
by Frances Phillips | Jul 4, 2017 | 2013, News, Traditional Arts
Collaborating with the African American Museum and Library at Oakland, Patricia Montgomery retold stories of heroines of the Civil Rights movement through story quilts fashioned into swing coats — each coat representing a different African American heroine....
by Frances Phillips | Feb 5, 2017 | 2013, News, Traditional Arts
Ten works from Patricia A. Montgomery’s collection of quilted coats honoring heroines of the civil rights movement are on exhibit through March 18 in the San Marco Gallery, Archbishop Alemany Library, at Dominican University in San Rafael. On Saturday, February...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 25, 2016 | 2013, News, Traditional Arts
Traditional quilter Patricia Montgomery collaborated with the African American Museum and Library at Oakland to create a collection of quilted coats — each incorporating the story of a forgotten heroine of the Civil Rights movement. Montgomery’s...
