Quilts are about history and art and politics and stories and patience and beauty and community and economics and place and expression and freedom and transition and family and warmth – and love. And they’re feminized and devalued. All that is why I’m so into quilts and quiltmaking. Plus, I just love to sew.
~ Cathy
The quilts in the Southern Lit. 101 series were made in collaboration with my husband, Fred C. Fussell. Fred draws; I sew.
from Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” 26” x 26”
from Alice Walker’s short story “Everyday Use” 26” x 26”
from Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird 34” x 25”
from Carson McCullers’ novel and play The Member of the Wedding 36” x 24”
from Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” 18” x 17”
from the last line of William Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying 24” x 24”
from William Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying 24” x 24”
from William Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying 22” x 25”
from William Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying 22” x 25”
Gifted to First Lady Michelle Obama by The Congressional Club, Annual First Lady’s Luncheon, Washington D.C., May 2016.
These three quilts, and the two following, hang in the David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Care Center, New York, New York. Photography by Samuel Morgan Photography, for Cade Tompkins Projects as Curator of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Koch Collection.
Collection of Fulton County Arts, Atlanta, GA.
Collection of Fulton County Arts, Atlanta, GA.
Alabama Department of Archives and History
Alabama Department of Archives and History
60" x 60"
58" x 58"
49" x 49"
45" x 45"