Through the medium of large-scale quilts, Mazloomi recounts the valiant lives of Black civil-rights activists, leaders and revolutionaries, often overlooked or oversimplified in our nation’s historical record, who played a seminal role in shaping American history in the twentieth century. As a Black woman raised in the segregated communities of the Jim-Crow South, these leaders—including John Lewis, Josephine Baker, Ida B. Wells, and Fannie Lou Hamer—influenced every fiber of her being, and it is through her artwork that she strives to convey dynamic portraits of their extraordinary courage.
August 26, 2024
