Английская Википедия:Carolyn L. Mazloomi
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox person Carolyn L. Mazloomi (née Carolyn Louise Stewart;[1] born August 22, 1948)[1] is an American curator, quilter, author, art historian, and aerospace engineer. She is a strong advocate for presenting and documenting African-American-made quilts. Her own quilts are designed to tell complex stories around African-American heritage and contemporary experiences.[2]
Life
Carolyn Louise Stewart was born in 1948 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,[1] to a family of amateur artists and painters. She graduated from Northrop University in Inglewood, California, and worked in Los Angeles as an aerospace engineer.
In the early 1970s, she encountered an Appalachian quilt at a market in Dallas that began her passion for quilting. She continued her quilting experiments while earning her PhD in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering in 1984.[3]
Mazloomi has since retired from her job as an aerospace engineer and Federal Aviation Administration crash site investigator. She is married to Iranian engineer Rezvan Mazloomi, and together the family lives in Ohio.[4]
Women of Color Quilters Network
In the mid-1980s after trying unsuccessfully to expand her small Los Angeles-based African-American quilting circle, Mazloomi placed an advertisement in Quilter's Newsletter Magazine requesting correspondence with other quilters who shared this frustration. Her advertisement and the resulting correspondence led to the formation of the Women of Color Quilters Network (WOCQN)[5] in 1986,[6] a national organization of 1,700 members.
Founding members of the WOCQN included Mazloomi, Claire E. Carter, aRma Carter, Cuesta Benberry, Meloydy Boyd, Michael Cummings, Peggie Hartwell, and Marie Wilson.[7]
Quilting
Mazloomi works in narrative quilts that tell stories through visuals. Common themes include music, inspired by an aunt who owned a Louisiana juke joint, and the African-American experience during the Civil Rights Movement.
Mazloomi currently serves on the board of directors of the Alliance for American Quilts.
Works authored on quilting
- Spirits of the Cloth: Contemporary African American Quilts (1998). Шаблон:ISBN
- Threads of Faith: Recent Works from the Women of Color Quilters Network (2004). Шаблон:ISBN
- Textural Rhythms: Quilting the Jazz Tradition (2007). Шаблон:ISBN
- Quilting African American Women's History Our Challenges, Creativity and Champions (2008). Шаблон:ISBN
- The Journey of Hope in America: Quilts Celebrating President Barack Obama (2009). Шаблон:ISBN
Awards
- In 1999 she was awarded the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award for Best Nonfiction book, for her work Spirits of the Cloth: Contemporary African American Quilts.[8][9]
- In 2003 Dr. Mazloomi was awarded the first Ohio Heritage Fellowship Award.[10]
- In 2014 Dr. Mazloomi was a recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship, specifically the Bess Lomax Hawes Award, bestowed by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.[8]
References
External links
- Шаблон:Official website
- WorldCat Catalog of Works by or about Carolyn Mazloomi
- Women of Color Quilters Network
- 2015 NEA podcast
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