Art historian James Romaine continues today, on the third Sunday in Advent, his classroom discussion of African American artist Harriet Powers and takes up the Pictorial Quilt, that, in Romaine's words, is "a sermon made material". As the images of the quilt in the YouTube discussion show show, various panels depict Bible stories, including those of Job and Jonah, but they also seem to visualize more recent events known to Powers. Through quilting, the artist, Romaine points out, turned a formerly oral tradition into "a strategy of visual story telling".
Powers's quilt is dated 1895-1898.
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