Harriet Powers died more than a century ago, but this Athens woman who was a former slave is remembered today as one of the most important figures in the culture of quilt making. A quilt that Powers ...

ATHENS —Years ago, quilting friends Sandy Benjamin-Hannibal and Peggy Hartwell came to Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery on Fourth Street, looking for the grave of Harriet Powers, an African American quilter ...

Harriet Powers lived in Georgia in the 1800s and is considered to be at the forefront of the African American story quilt tradition. Only two of her quilts survived — and they were recently exhibited ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Harriet Powers, an African American farm woman of Clarke County, Georgia, made this quilt in about 1886. She exhibited ...

Children and grown-ups who go to a program at the Athens-Clarke County Library Thursday afternoon will get a rare sight — a replica of one of Harriet Powers’ famous quilts. Just two quilts ever made ...

For much of the 20th century, the work of Harriet Powers, an enslaved and later emancipated Black folk artist, remained forgotten. For much of the 20th century, the work of Harriet Powers, an enslaved ...

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