Episode 056 Carole Ann King Alabama Quilts 2022 Sulzby Award

Episode # 56 Carole Ann King – Alabama Quilts, 2022 Sulzby Award
Recipient November 10, 2022 _________________________________
"Quilts are Alabama Folk Art and History" Today's guest is Carol
Ann King, Curator at Old Alabama Town in Montgomery (Landmarks
Foundation of Montgomery, Inc.) whose book, Alabama Quilts:
Wilderness through World War II, 1682-1950 (University of
Mississippi Press, 2020), won the Alabama Historical Association's
2022 James Sulzby Award for best book published on the state's
history in the previous two years. Ms. King discusses the
decade-long community quilt survey conducted by King and her
co-author, Mary Elizabeth Johnson Huff (1944-2019) – known as
"Sunny" throughout the quilting community of the US Southeast that
she documented throughout her career —that exposed more than 4000
historical quilts in the state. They chose over 200 to photograph
and tell those stories in their lavish work. Links mentioned in the
episode: Alabama Quilts, University of Mississippi Press --
https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/Alabama-Quilts Old Alabama
Town -- https://www.oldalabamatown.com/ Birmingham Museum of Art --
https://www.artsbma.org/ Made in Alabama: A State Legacy (at
Amazon) -- https://tinyurl.com/2p8ehynd Alabama Cultural Survey
Records (Bham Museum of Art) --
https://cdm16044.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16044coll7
If you'd rather read the transcript, you can find it here (caveat:
the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate) --
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pg2x0MuFmxprt2kw343-YtEHVmrlG8iOfxQ7kagTIP8/edit?usp=share_link
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