writer | art historian | quilter
Public Library Quilts is an arts education project by art historian Dr Jess Bailey
Edinburgh | Scotland
Many Hands Make a Quilt
Short Histories of Radical Quilting
by Jess Bailey
Within The Frame
Co-founded by Dr Jess Bailey & Deborah McQuire: A project combining academic research, practice-led intergenerational knowledge, and the preservation of an endangered art form. Our project is committed to connecting the next generation of hand quilters with the nuanced historical contours of quilting in a frame in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales.
About Public Library Quilts: Continuing a family tradition, I make quilts for kin & community organisers.
My quilts raise funds for seed grants, mutual aid, and activists embedded in their communities of work.
Using my training as an art historian, I work to preserve socially engaged histories of quilting through research, writing, teaching, & public engagement work. I work at a university, & do not sell quilts.
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