June
10
TUBMAN MUSEUM: WINI MCQUEEN : IF WALLS COULD TALK…
The Tubman Museum is the largest museum in the Southeast dedicated to educating people about the Art, History and Culture of African Americans.
Wini McQueen is known for her dyer’s art-painting, stamping and resist patterning textiles for clothing. In addition, Wini has a passion for recording stories from the African Diaspora through interviews, sound recordings and photographs. When both the interest in dyer’s art-painting and recording stories merged, the results were hand dyed pieced works with quilt-like qualities which she calls “urban kente”. Wini spent the last five years crafting textiles about the written word from the African Diaspora that covers the two story rotunda walls of The Tubman African America Museum.
POSSE VIDEOS:
POSSE PHOTOS:
Tubman Museum Logo
Layla looking at the wall text about Wini McQuuen’s quilts, and noticing Wini’s picture
Layla and Wini at the beginning of the exhibition
Wini looking at her quilt wall
Layla asking a question about one of Wini’s quilts
Wini pointing out one of her quits
Layla and Wini checking out the slavery quilt wall
Closeups of some of Wini’s quilts symbolizing African beats and drumming not being allowed on plantations
Closeup of bird quilt
Closeup of quilt symbolizing no music being allowed on plantations after dark
Closeup of slave quilt
Layla deciphering the meaning of a quilt at Wini’s requet “What do you see?”
“I see sky and underbrush and a woman coming out of the forest- Harriet Tubman.”
Slavery quilt and clothing quilt below demonstrating the importance of cotton in the USA
Layla against the slavery wall of quilts
A quilt with weaving Wini made in college
Frederick Douglass quote quilt
Layla on to the Reconstruction quilt wall admiring a quilt about a the first African-American man to win a certain war medal- he was a local Macon resident
Layla with Dr. Andy Ambrose- Founder and Executive Director of The Tubman Museum
A beautiful velvet quilt
Quilts about local Macon residents – a nurse/mortician and a school teacher.
Layla with one of her favorite quilts from the exhibition about the local Macon woman who was a nurse and a mortician
Closeup of the local Macon teacher quilt
Wini describing the 3 dimensional effect and construction
Life imitates art
Layla looking at the local Macon musician quilt
Marching band quilt
Olmec design quilt Wni threw in to spark discussion
WIni and Layla
Life imitates art- Layla pretending to be a doll in the quilt depicting girls in the fine white dresses and their dolls
Closeup of one of Wini’s quilts
Tubman Museum groundbreaking and construction quilt showing businesses that used to be on the site and the outline of the actual museum
Hudie Leadbelly quote quilt
Layla with the quilt showing scenes from the Pan-African festival reminiscent of an African Mask
Closeup of quilt
Closeup of a metallic quilt showing the sheath of an Egyptian Sword
Layla looking closely at one of the lower quilts
Closeup of the Tubman Museum quilt
Layla reading the “Little Sally Walker” Quil
Layla with Wini talking about the “Little Sally Walker” rhyming song
Closeup of Layla and the quilt wall
Closeup of one of the higher quilts
Closeup of Arabic quilt
Red Bird with a fallen feather quilt
Wini reaching out to the red feather and pretending to have it land in her hand
Quilt made by kids who interned with Wini
Wini explaining that this quilt was made entirely by the children.
Layla with a donor quilt on the 2nd floor
Layla with a donor quilt on the 2nd floor
Layla with a donor quilt on the 2nd floor
Layla with a donor quilt on the 2nd floor
Layla with a donor quilt on the 2nd floor
Layla with a donor quilt on the 2nd floor
Layla checking out Wini’s quilt studies
Wini describing elements of one of her quilt studies
WIni on the bench outside of The Tubman
Closeup of Wini McQueen
Layla picking out quilt studies she likes
Wini describing the study showing African bowls
Layla admiring a particular one of Wini’s quilt studies
Wini McQueen quilt studies at Layla’s feet
Black and white photo of Wini and Layla
Sunny and hot outside- Wini and Layla taking a selfie
Layla narrowing the selections down to 3 pieces
