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The following links will provide you with some information
about the Gee's Bend quilters and their quilts.

Arden Theatre Study Guide - a study guide to the play from Arden Theatre Company 

Alabama's Storyteller -  a documentary film about Gee's Bend from Alabama public television  

'The Quilts of Gee's Bend' - A Showcase of Distinctive Work by African-American Artists by Neal Conan - NPR interview

Study Guide - Whitney Museum of American Art prepared this study guide for the exhibition of Gee's Bend quilts with timelines, history, photos and points of discussion.

Interview with Gee's Bend Quilters

 The Gee's Bend Quilt Collective  

Tinwood Alliance, official site of the discovery and promotion of the original Gee's Bend quilts and quilt makers

 

Gee’s Bend today is a small, rural, primarily African-American community in Alabama, whose population numbers approximately 700. Located about 30 miles southwest of Selma inside a horseshoe-shaped bend at the base of the Alabama River, Gee’s Bend is surrounded by water on three sides. The geographic isolation created by the encircling river has marked life there for several generations. Gee's Bend has just one road leading out of town, that was not even paved until about thirty-five years ago. The only other physical connection to the outside world was a ferry service leading across the river, which was terminated in the 1960s after Gee's Bend residents registered to vote.

The following images were taken by Arthur Rothstein. The photographs are from the Library of Congress.

Gee's Bend Ferry, 1937

Cabins on the old Pettway Plantation

Pettway women

Pettways 1937

Woman hauling water Gee's Bend 1937

Pettway girl, 1937
 

1937

Pettway family group, 1937

"Housetop" Quilt by Nette Jane Kennedy 1955