QUILTINDEX | test

BACK TO ARTISTS

Ione Todd

Quiltmaker

Remus, Michigan, United States

Ione Todd is featured in the exhibit: Quilting Sisters: African-American Quiltmaking in Michigan.

Ione Todd made quilts with her daughter Deonna Todd Green.

Was the maker a woman, man or a group?

Female

Ethnic background/tribal affiliation:

African American

Where was the quiltmaker born?

United States

Spouse's/Spouses' name(s):

Marshall Todd

COMPARE
SORT BY

ID Number(first-last)

Contributor(A-Z)

Contributor(Z-A)

Maker(A-Z)

Maker(Z-A)

Pattern(A-Z)

Pattern(Z-A)

Date(oldest first)

Date(newest first)

Museum
Michigan State University Museum

Michigan State University Museum

East Lansing, Michigan, United States

The Michigan State University Museum has a collection of over 1000 quilts.

museums

View Full Record

27-96-69573
Exhibit
Quilting Sisters: African-American Qui...

Marsha MacDowell

Quilting Sisters: African-American Quiltimaking in Michigan

Marsha MacDowell

January, 13, 2000

This exhibition of fifteen quilts from the Michigan State University Museum's extensive textile collections represents the diversity of quilting traditions found within historical and contemporary African-American communities in Michigan.

Exhibit

View Full Record

27-97-70113

exhibits
Collection
African American Quilt Collection

Michigan State University Museum

African American Quilt Collection

Michigan State University Museum

December, 2001

The Michigan State University Museum's collection of African-American quilts grew out of an effort begun in 1985 to aggressively collect information on African-American quilting history in the state.

Collection

View Full Record

27-97-70112

specialcolls
Creator
Old Settlers' Reu...
Green, Deonna

1990

Old Settlers' Reunion Quilt

Creator: Green, Deonna

Owner: Michigan State University Museum

United States

Contruction: Embroidery

Quilt Size: 77" x 76"

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton or polyester blend

Perhaps the most ambitious project to document community history was undertaken by Deonna Green and her mother, Ione Todd, of Remus, Michigan. Entitled the Old Settlers' Quilt, the embroidered pictures and words pay tribute to the black families who homesteaded in Mecosta, Montcalm, and Isabella cou...

27-92-49486
Creator
Todd Family Histo...
Green, Deonna

1990

Todd Family History Quilt

Creator: Green, Deonna

Owner: Michigan State University Museum

Remus, Michigan (MI)

Contruction: Ink drawing/Painting

Quilt Size: 82" x 79"

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton or polyester blend

This is one of three Todd Family quilts. The first was raffled off to a cousin at a family reunion in 1986. A second, more comlex version was exhibited in 1990 as part of the national exhibition Stitiching Memories: African American Story Quilts at Williams College in MA. This third one was commissi...

27-92-49039
Creator
Todd Family Quilt...
Green, Deonna

1983

Todd Family Quilt

Creator: Green, Deonna

Owner: Deonna Todd Green

Remus, Michigan (MI)

Contruction: Machine Piecing, Embroidery

Quilt Size: 82" x 79"

Ken Todd (co-ordinator) approached me with the idea of making a pattern, and constructing a quilt. Blocks of material were handed out to Diana Green, Deloris Todd, Marion Todd, Ione Todd, Carol Norman, and myself, to be embroidered. The appliqued, painted, and embroidered pictures were done by me. ...

27-92-59177
Creator
Crazy Friendship
Green, Deonna; Gree...

1989

Crazy Friendship

Creator: Green, Deonna; Green, Ione

Owner: Marsha MacDowell

Remus, Michigan (MI)

Contruction: Machine Piecing

Quilt Size: 82" x 84"

Fabrics: Cotton

It has been a long-standing tradition in the Todd family to make quilts not only for utility as bedcovers but also as gifts to celebrate family births, weddings, and anniversaries. Mother and daughter, Todd and Green, regularly make crib-size quilts as gifts for new babies born to friends and family...

27-92-49863