The Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers

Monica Sjöö

in ‘Women in Revolt! Art, Activism and the Women’s Movement in the UK 1970 - 1990’, Tate Britain, London

Maria Bartuszová

Museum der Moderne, Salzburg

Sheila Hicks

in ‘To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection’, El Espacio 23, Miami

Sheila Hicks

Parvis de L’Institut de France, Paris

Carol Rhodes

Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht

Sheila Hicks

Awarded the 2023 U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts

Nicola L.: Life and Art Book Launch

New York, Paris & London

Ian Kiaer

in ‘UNBUILD: a site of possibility’, Drawing Room, London

Carol Rhodes

Haus am Waldsee, Berlin

Ana Mendieta

Silhueta em Fogo, SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, Brazil

Erika Verzutti & Anderson Borba

Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil

Alessandro Raho

in ‘In The Offing’, Turner Contemporary, Margate

Veronica Ryan

2023 School Prints programme at The Hepworth Wakefield

Ljiljana Blaževska

Palazzo Carrozzini, Lecce

Two works by the Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers Lola Pettway and Lottie Mooney are included in the group exhibition ‘In the Presence of Our Ancestors: Southern Perspectives in African American Art’ at Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis.

The exhibition brings together methods of visual storytelling and ancestral memory through the individual practices of artists from the ‘Black Belt’ region of the American South – a term that refers to the region’s black soil, as well as the legacies of African Americans who shaped its social and agrarian culture.

Spanning from Louisiana to Florida, from the mid-20th century to the present, the included artists document rural life and traditions of metalwork, funerary and yard art and quiltmaking, thus demonstrating the rich history and dynamic evolution of artistic practices across the South.