Tributes

I made this for Mac Knight, Principal at Dewitt Middle School. This is a picture quilt --I researched the quilt at the Cornell History Center on the Commons. It is a picture of my Art History Professor, Dr. Saleh Hassan and Faith Ringgold's Quilt Tar Beach. I was at this conference at Cornell. I was teaching STEM principles at Dewitt Middle School and Principal Mac Knight welcomed me in the Circle of Influence that he created for all educators and students. That school was the most welcoming environment I have ever been in my life. Besides the Africana Studies & Research Center on Triphammer Road in Lansing, NY.

I made this for my Aunt Eunice. It is part of a series of quilts made by the women in my family. This is my contribution-it is called Sankofa-it is an Andinkra Symbol and it means "We should reach back and gather the best of what our past has to teach us. So that we can achieve our full potential as we move forward. Whatever we have lost, forgotten, foregone or been stripped of, can be reclaimed, revived, preserved and perpetuated.
My contribution with this quilt supports a 100 year old tradition of quilts in our family. My cousins finished the binding. This quilt is in my Aunt Eunice's house in Utica, NY along with a quilt made over 75 years ago by my Aunt Florence.