"Nurturing Women" Quilt Winner is Laura Albyn

Jennifer Landis (left) and Laura Albyn display the "Nurturing Women" quilt that Laura won March 28, 2007.

Last summer, senior UAH art major Jennifer Landis curated an exhibition at the Union Grove Gallery at UAH displaying a variety of art works exploring ideas of mothering and fertility.  “Nurturing Women” was the title of the show and the theme of a quilt created as the centerpiece for this group exhibition. The quilt was a special project of the UAH Art Club, and was the work of over 18 artists, mothers, and women skilled in the traditional craft of quilt-making.  They worked together for more than three months to make a quilt expressing the theme of “Nurturing Women.” Participants ranged from 12 to 54 years old. The quilt exhibits a variety of types of human representation in fabric-based art and explores women’s richly diverse experiences of mothering and fertility.

The quilt was awarded as a fundraiser prize during the Third Wave Feminism Mini-Conference, with the drawing held Wednesday night, March 28, at Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards' public lecture at Chan Auditorium.

Watch this page for additional information the quilt and posters of it for sale.