Word: beardsley
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...John Beardsley, author and senior lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), entertained a crowd of approximately 150 academics, GSD students, and local artisans in a talk yesterday evening entitled “Black Belt Vernacular: African-American Visual Culture in the Deep South...
...Beardsley is the author of Gee’s Bend: The Women and Their Quilts. His work catalogs the social, historical, and artistic significance of quilt-making in African-American culture—saying that quilts had devotional, artistic, and trade purposes...
...European tradition, there’s a tendency to repeat patterns. In the African-American tradition, there’s a desire to break patterns,” Beardsley said...
...visual slide that elicited a reaction from the crowd was that of a simple green and white quilt entitled “Lazy Gal.” Made from corduroy, this quilt employed a style which Beardsley dubbed “improvised geometries...
...Beardsley also established connections between the artistry of quilts and devotional worship...