Object Details
- Artist
- Virginia R. Harris, born Macon, GA 1937
- Exhibition Label
- Trained as a chemist, Harris is a self-taught quilter whose work addresses environmental justice, educational policy, current events, and the Black experience in the United States. She has described her quilts as art canvases, using the fabric as her palette and various stitches as her brush strokes. The design of kaleidoscopic, fractured colors in Candy Box is based on an origami form of the same name that Harris replicated in fabric. While searching for innovative quilt block patterns, Harris found endless possibilities in the art of origami. This quilt speaks to cultures coming together, combining fabric from Japanese kimonos with red, black, and green fabrics representing the Pan-African flag, a symbol of Black liberation and the people of the African diaspora.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist in honor of Carolyn L. Mazloomi, Founder of the Women of Color Quilters' Network
- Copyright
- © 1994, Virginia R. Harris
- 1994
- Object number
- 2002.16
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Decorative Arts-Fiber
- Quilt
- Crafts
- Medium
- machine pieced and quilted cotton and metallic thread
- Dimensions
- 78 3/8 x 77 7/8 in. (199.0 x 197.8 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Renwick Gallery
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Record ID
- saam_2002.16
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7a3d43f84-f642-447b-abb8-2bf52641cad1
