Quilts by Bisa Butler

 

A friend told me about these, and I'm thrilled: 

Extraordinary, really fantastic quilts by Black artist Bisa Butler,

featured here, on this site by the Art Institute of Chicago, and there is some music, too, very wonderful:

https://www.artic.edu/highlights/31/bisa-butler-the-playlist

"Bisa Butler creates portraits that are singular and striking. Her works, intricately layered and vibrantly colored quilts, resurface and reimagine historical narratives of Black life." 

https://www.artic.edu/articles/858/the-people-of-bisa-butlers-portraits

 

... and here she talks about her work in a wonderful way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_4gD1K3mZA&feature=youtu.be

 

 

Teddy Bear of the Month: November

“November--with uncanny witchery in its changed trees. With murky red sunsets flaming in smoky crimson behind the westering hills. With dear days when the austere woods were beautiful and gracious in a dignified serenity of folded hands and closed eyes--days full of a fine, pale sunshine that sifted through the late, leafless gold of the juniper-trees and glimmered among the grey beeches, lighting up evergreen banks of moss and washing the colonnades of the pines. Days with a high-sprung sky of flawless turquoise. Days when an exquisite melancholy seemed to hang over the landscape and dream about the lake. But days, too, of the wild blackness of great autumn storms, followed by dank, wet, streaming nights when there was witch-laughter in the pines and fitful moans among the mainland trees. What cared they? Old Tom had built his roof well, and his chimney drew.” 

― L.M. Montgomery

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/november?page=2