Minder Pettway Coleman (October 11, 1903 – 16 May 1999) was an American artist. She was one of the Gee's Bend quilt-makers, along with her older sister Delia Bennett and her daughter Minnie Sue Coleman.[1][2][3]

Life

Coleman was an active citizen of Gee's Bend, Alabama. She was as the president of the Gee's Bend Farms agricultural cooperative,[4] established by the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s, and was vice-president of the Freedom Quilting Bee, established in 1966. She was also a member of Gee's Bend's weaving cooperative in the 1930s.[1]

Career

Quilters communed and worked together at Coleman's house before the Freedom Quilting Bee was founded, so it is no wonder that Coleman worked there full-time from 1966- 1978. Along with Mattie Ross and Patsy Mosely, Coleman wove draperies 76 inches wide and 250 inches long for the Roosevelt White House.[1] She also wove a blue- and- white striped cloth for a suit for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, of which local lore holds that he was buried in.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Minder Coleman | Souls Grown Deep Foundation". www.soulsgrowndeep.org. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
  2. ↑ Beardsley, John; Arnett, William; Arnett, Paul; Livingston, Jane (2002). Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts. Tinwood Books. p. 358. ISBN 9780971910409.
  3. ↑ Callahan, Nancy (April 17, 2005). The Freedom Quilting Bee: Folk Art and the Civil Rights Movement. University of Alabama Press. p. 145. ISBN 9780817352479.
  4. ↑ "These vintage photographs from 1939 show how busy the cooperative store and mill in Gee's Bend were in 1939 – Alabama Pioneers". www.alabamapioneers.com. Retrieved June 12, 2019.


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