East Side quilt, Sonié Joi Thompson-Ruffin

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Sonié Joi Thompson-Ruffin, East Side quilt
Sonié Joi Thompson-Ruffin, East Side quilt
Sonié Joi Thompson-Ruffin
East Side quilt
2004–2005
Sonié Joi Thompson-Ruffin, artist
born 1951
East Side quilt, 2004–2005
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: cotton; kente; piecing
Dimensions:
Object Length/Width (Length x Width): 214.5 x 217 cm
Object Length/Width (Length x Width): 85 7/16 x 84 7/16 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund
Accession number: 2006.0004
On display: Simons Gallery
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Exhibition Label: "Recent Acquisitions," Mar-2006, Emily Stamey Sonie Joi Ruffin is a nationally recognized quilt artist and storyteller. She incorporates both African print fabrics, such as Kente cloth, Mud cloth, and Korhogo cloth, and American print fabrics, such as polka dot, plaid, and floral prints, in her work. East Side gives visual form to the artist’s childhood memories of the family, friends, and activities that filled her Saturday mornings in “East Side,“ the African American neighborhood of Joplin, Missouri, in which she grew up.