Looks like someone is crashing the quilting bee!
In Faith Ringgold’s 1996 lithograph “The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles,” we see nine significant African American women (lower left to right): Ringgold’s fictional heroine Willia Marie Simone, Madam Walker, Sojourner Truth, Ida Wells, Fannie Lou Hammer, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Ella Baker.
Off to the right is a red-bearded man bearing a bouquet of his own sunflowers…
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wait, i love this! clever mash-up w/ VvG
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