Photograph by Doris Derby, 1970.
Craft Research Fund Grant
2023
"Disrupting the Loop of Recovery: Black Women’s Engagement with Textile Art and Political Thought" is a research project that evinces the solidarity economy that developed alongside collaborative aesthetics in the Alabama Black Belt and Mississippi Delta regions.
Selected works
Poor People’s Corporation (PPC) Sewing Co-op Patchwork Animals. Photograph by Doris Derby, 1970. Mississippi. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. https://collections.si.edu/search/record/ark:/65665/fd5356fccf4bff949a8809719e67238fb1c
Doris Derby displaying dolls and other items made by the Poor People's Corporation of Mississippi. Photograph by Bruce H. Cox, 1969. Mississippi. UCLA Library Special Collections. https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/zz0002vr3j
Photograph by Doris Derby, 1970.
Liberty House Advertisement in Kudzo. Mississippi. Margaret Walker Center Digital Collections. https://www.jsums.edu/margaretwalkercenter/liberty-house-and-craft-cooperatives/
Leola Pettway filling dashiki orders. Photograph by Patricia Goudvis, 1970. Alabama. https://acresofancestry.org/return-of-the-bees-multimedia-project/.
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