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Nancy Riddick's Quilts: Autobiographical Statements

1996
Gunkel, Cassandra Stancil
United States
From Uncoverings 1996, Volume 17 of the Research Papers of the American Quilt Study Group
Cassandra Stancil Gunkel has a Ph.D. in folklore and folklife and is cur­rently a postdoctoral Mellon Fellow at Bryn Mawr College, pursuing research on African American quilters. She co-founded the South Eastern Pennsylvania African American Quilt Project to document historic and contemporary quilts and quilters. She calls her lifelong interest in quilts and handmade objects a birthright-women in her family have been spinning, crocheting, quilting, and sewing for at least six generations.

​When AQSG added Uncoverings articles to the Quilt Index, they omitted all the illustrations, for lack of permissions. Although the articles found in the QI (1980-2010, 2012-2016) lack illustrations, they link to quilts, essays, special collections, and documentation projects across the Quilt Index, introducing them to a wider audience. The permission issues have since been resolved and in 2024, AQSG completed adding all the Uncoverings volumes from 1980-2023 to the Digital Commons@University of Nebraska-Lincoln. They are completely searchable and include all the illustrations. You can find, Uncoverings 1996, Volume 17, at this link, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/aqsg-uncoverings/11/.

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