OBOI: Artists Association of Nantucket Craft - Grab and Go - Painted Story Quilt

Quilt-making is a centuries-long storytelling medium utilized by many cultures. It’s an art form that can teach basic math skills, recycle cast-off materials, encourage cooperation and provide comfort. Artist and author Faith Ringgold is renowned for her painted story quilts. She surrounds her narrative paintings with a quilted fabric border, which creates visual art that tells a story in color, texture, and pattern.

Like Faith, students select a story to illustrate — either from a book, family history, or an experience of their own — then create their selected scene on fabric using watercolor pencils and pastels. With the remaining fabric, students design swatches to create a border, while learning about textile design in the process. Swatches may be shared among young designers, just as fabrics have been shared by families and communities for centuries for the purpose of creating quilts. This project is something families can do together to share their stories of what home means to them. If participants wish to bring their finished work to the gallery on drop off days, they will be exhibited as part of the One Book One Island event for all to see and enjoy. Drop off on Mar. 23 & 24, 10-5PM at the Cecelia Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery, 19 Washington St.