19387 - Weaving Threads: A History of New Mexico Women through Quilts
Course Overview
They were authors, storytellers, Pueblo ancestors, religious saints, missionaries, transgressors, Harvey Girls, and Cowgirls. So often, their stories are unrecorded except through the art left behind. We’ll discuss the women, local and "imports", who contributed to the development of what is now New Mexico. Through slides, narration and the exhibition of Tina's original quilts, the audience will be introduced to some famous and many "not-so-famous" local and immigrant New Mexico Women.
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Cristina "Tina" Gravatt is a self-taught seamstress who worked from home when her children were young. Being able to stand waste, she saved the scraps from the many projects and taught herself patchwork, applique and quilting. In 1986, she began creating historically accurate miniature quilts and collecting antique and vintage doll beds on which to display them. She created vignettes by using the quilts and beds to illustrate her talks on American and European quilting and its social history. Tina has worked in 39 states and 9 countries, authored three books, written numerous quilting articles and was a columnist for two quilting magazines.