Twentieth-Century American Craft Summary

This shines light upon her Native American roots and how it can be an inspiration for her Century Quilt, each square representing her family’s racial diversity and mixed roots. It is quite difficult to learn of all the harsh animosity they were enduring, such as Meema and her yellow sisters whose “grandfather’s white family nodding at them when they met” (24-27). The hostility is clear as the white relatives only register their presence; no “hello” or warm embrace as if they didn’t acknowledge them as true family. However, with descriptive imagery, the speaker’s sense of pride for having the best of both worlds is still present as she understands Meema’s past experiences and embraces her family’s complexity wholeheartedly; animosity and all.

There can be great comfort in understanding one’s heritage especially when it involves the deep love and devotion of a strong mother. The poem combines family and love with the quilt to show the memories that she has shared threw the generations that have had the quilt. In the poem “my mother pieced quilts” by Teresa Paloma Acosta and the short story “ Everyday use” by Alice Walker, both author’s use imagery and figurative language to establish a quilt as a symbol for family, love and memories to illustrate their themes.

Native American basketry is a difficult task and it takes a lot of skill. It was utilized for many purposes such as gathering, cooking, storing and drinking. I believe the dealers lore led to the transformation of artwork due to the amount of skill that was put into weaving baskets. These are now displayed

The preservation of traditions and skills is an important part of our community and family history. As Rose stated in “Let the Good Times Roll”, “It is the harmonic convenience of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once” (361). During the fall of every year, towns across Georgia host a festival of some sort. Whether it be the Yellow Daisy Festival at Stone Mountain Park or the Friendship Festival in Social Circle, local artist and craftsmen come together to display and sell their handmade items. Ranging from patch worked quilts to bird feeders to hand smocked children’s

In Iris H. W. Engstrand article, “Perception and Perfection: Picturing the Spanish and Mexican Coastal West,” I initially did not know what to expect of the article. I figured Engstrand would discuss multiple views and perspectives when moving to the Spanish and Mexican Coastal front. I found the thesis, after reading through the article as it was not outrightly stated, to be: “Artists and illustrators depicted the past -- or the observable present -- in pictorial documents that became the records of current events, journalism, of reportage, and of scientific exploration, discovery, and adventure.” I believe Engstrand’s purpose is to reveal to her readers the predominant primary sources of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century and how the art could be manipulated to please specific cultures or people.

Native American beading has been accomplished for an unknown amount of time; but, beadwork is one of the most notorious art forms practiced by the Native American people. Native American people fashioned their own beads pending the appearance of Europeans. Since none of the Native Americans has metal tools, producing beads was a long, tedious, procedure. The tools the Native Americans did use, were made of stone or wood and adhesives such as sand. (Kansas

The romantic era was a time in history that had altered how people viewed art, literature, and music, having its own significant style. Many people were known throughout the world for their contributions to the romantic era. Robert Scott Duncanson and Mary Edmonia Lewis were two important artists of the romantic era. The first American artist who will be spoken about is, Robert Scott Duncanson. Duncanson was a self-taught African American painter that was known mainly for his landscape paintings, but also for his portraits and murals. The following artist who will be spoken about Mary Edmonia Lewis. Lewis was known as the first “colored sculptor” in her time. In this paper, it will be discussed how these two artists overcame many obstacles

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This week while reading the Contemporary Coast Salish Art I was found myself drawn to Susan A. Point more than others so far in my reading of the book. I appreciate how Susan is inspired by her Musqueam tribe and her Salish up bring and how she can integrate the two (Blanchard, Rebecca, and Nancy Davenport, pg.25). Susan’s uses the traditional art forms such Salish form line, baskets, textiles, carvings and weaving as a starting point of her inspiration to create a renewed art piece retelling a story to reach her new audience (Blanchard, Rebecca, and Nancy Davenport, pg. 25). While reading about Susan and looking at her artwork two piece of artwork stood out to me “Seattle House Post I, state I/IV and Seattle House Post II, state I/IV” these

As with most Native American art, there were originally multiple distinct traditions that involved baskets in North America. Basket-weaving is one of the oldest known Native American crafts. It varies for different tribes because they used different materials, weaving techniques, basket shapes, and characteristic patterns. Some wonder how these baskets were crafted so precisely with the materials gathered from nature, and as we learn to appreciate Native American art more; we start asking ourselves what was the purpose or meaning of these works of art?

“Everyday Use” is a short story by Alice Walker, which emphasizes the importance of understanding and cherishing your heritage and the inheritance that may come along with it. Knowing who is truly entitled to the inheritance, and what their heritage meant was the central conflict in the story, when the two main characters Dee and Maggie, both wanted the two hand stitched quilts. Rather than looking at the physical aspect of the quilts the author wants the reader to know that the meaning is much deeper. The quilts are used to depict the struggle, triumphs, oppression, joy, pain, and love of each hand that helped to create the prized works of art. The quilts needed to be put to everyday use, rather than a mere decoration on the wall. Through the quilts Walker was able to show what each character valued: Dee valued the materials things, Maggie, valued things she could attach herself to, and Mama valued the acceptance of her daughter Dee.

Native American art history has been developing for over thousands of years. The arts have a vast deep connection with spirituality and the Earth. It’s a way of life for almost all Native Americans and can be traced back to cave paintings and stonework. Each piece of art is designed to reveal the complexity of the diverse tribes. One of the most popular forms of art is jewelry; it’s heavy in symbolism which makes is more easily accepted. Native Americans are better known for their skills in carving intricate patterns and designs. Often, their inspiration will actually come from the natural world surrounding them. The arts, to the Native Americans, hold more symbolism to them than a lot of the other aspects their culture holds and is a part of.

Technology is changing the essence of music , technology came to with the advent of recordings. Thomas Edison invented a crude cylinder phonograph in 1877. By the end of the nineteenth century, companies in the United States and England were manufacturing recordings of music.

The event, I attended in the ‘National Museum of African American History & Culture’ was on the ‘An Evolution of Expression: Sundance Star Quilt’ at 20th October, 2016. It was an exhibition on Quilts; a tradition that expresses global culture, diversity and gender. This was the most prized celebration and American Indian quilts are special crafts in the national museum of the American Indian. Kendra Greendeer described the patterns and how quilting was a part in the life of community for Lakota woman. This is a most creative craft found in the world and famous among woman, though history of quilting is not limited to some particular regions.

Although Guatemala is multi-ethnic, indigenous people have been excluded from society. However, even though they suffer from discrimination, they are recognized for their talents on weaving, especially women. Embroidering and weaving are a representation of the Guatemalan culture and background of the woman who designs