Gee's Bend Quilts

Gee's Bend Quilts
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Gee's Bend Quilts

The women of Gee’s Bend—a small, remote, Black community in Alabama —have created hundreds of quilt masterpieces dating from the early twentieth century to the present.
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Mary Lee Bendolph, Blocks and strips, 2002
Gee's Bend

Mary Lee Bendolph

One of the best-known and most revered Gee’s Bend quiltmakers, Mary Lee Bendolph (b. 1935), has spent many decades transforming scraps of old cloth into aesthetic marvels.
Joe Light, Dawn, 1988
Beyond Gee's Bend

Joe Light

Influenced by graffiti and pop culture imagery, Joe Light (b. 1934) was a deeply religious artist, focused on finding spiritual enlightenment.
Ronald Lockett, Sarah Lockett's Roses, 1997
Beyond Gee's Bend

Ronald Lockett

Born in Bessemer, Alabama in 1965, Ronald Lockett produced hundreds of works of art that grappled with personal tragedy and the horrors of the twentieth century.

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Souls Grown Deep Artists
Fostering Economic Empowerment
Through a pioneering revenue-sharing model, Souls Grown Deep has made artists or their estates equal partners in profits from the sale of all prints and frames. Purchases are a great way to directly support Black artists from the American South and the mission of Souls Grown Deep to promote their work and support their communities by fostering economic empowerment, racial and social justice, and educational advancement.

About Our Prints

Prints on Archival Paper
Framing includes a 2 1/2 inch white mat with a wide range of wood mouldings to choose from. Paper prints can also be ordered unframed with a 2 inch border around the image area.


Stretched Canvas Prints
Prints on canvas are all stretched over a 1 1/2 inch deep stretcher frame and are ready to hang whether framed or not. Framing options for canvas are exclusively "Floater" style, where the frame surrounds the edge of the stretched canvas without touching it.