On this fourth Sunday in Advent, art historian James Romaine discusses African American artist Harriet Powers's Bible Quilt and how the quilt, comprising 11 panels organized in three rows, can be read. Powers, according to Romaine, expected viewers to understand her "visual sermon" and to read it with "a spiritual consciousness."
The video derives from Romaine's Seeing Art History classroom discussion of the artist, a former slave, and her work. See "Art for Advent 4: Harriet Powers, Reading the Bible Quilt" on YouTube.
Bible Quilt (1885-1886), Smithsonian National Museum of American History
ARTSTOR's "The Enduring Significance of Harriet Powers's Quilts"
Kristin Urban, "Harriet Powers: A Black Female Folk Artist Who Regained Her Glory", DailyArt Magazine, July 10, 2020
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