Join us for a presentation by Georgetown fiber artist Susan Hess: Miniature Echoes: Through the Art of the Gee's Bend Quiltmakers. 

In 2006, as part of its American Treasures Series, the U.S. Postal Service issued a set of first-class stamps featuring ten Gee’s Bend quilts made between c. 1940 and 1998, in the community of Gee's Bend, Alabama, marking the first time work by living artists was included in the series. Susan has replicated the ten stamps in miniature using weaving and embroidery techniques. Her exhibit and program endeavor to share how creative imagination can reorient the societal, cultural and personal considerations of one’s awareness.

Susan's fascination with the Gee's Bend Quiltmakers began in 2008 with she saw the exhibit entitled "Gee's Bend" The Architecture of the Quilt" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The set of commemorative stamps was the impetus for the project.  Susan learned to weave when she moved to Islesboro, Maine in 1999.  After spending a few years on the island, she and her loom moved to Georgetown.