As a student enrolled in GDES 4990 Senior Project, I created a cohesive design for the Gee’s Bend Quilting Workshop. The Gee’s Bend Quilting Workshop is a fictional quilting workshop organized by Mary Ann Pettway and taught by several of the women at Gee’s Bend. The design for the workshop is to appeal to the main demographic attending the workshop (women 45+; though all are welcome to attend). Through the use of vibrant colors and the pairing of multiple typefaces, I wanted to capture who these women are and the dynamicness of their work.

For this project, the only restraint was that we had to create a cohesive design. I needed to stay true to who these women are and wanted to ensure that the design never came across as cold despite all of the white space I was using. The white space was necessary for all of the women's work to exist within and to elevate the work without the pieces becoming too busy. 

The women of Gee’s Bend—a small, remote, black community in Alabama—have created hundreds of quilt masterpieces dating from the early twentieth century to the present. Enlivened by a visual imagination that extends the expressive boundaries of the quilt genre, these astounding creations constitute a crucial chapter in the history of African American art with quilts composed boldly and improvisationally, in geometries that transform recycled work clothes and dresses, feed sacks, and fabric remnants.