Story Quilts
The design technique used to create pictures on a quilt
What is applique?
Most of her work resembled stained glass
Who was Mary Lowndes?
The Women's Suffrage Movement had its roots in the what movement before it?
Forcing food down someone's throat
What is force feeding?
An unmarried woman aged 20-40, or an older woman past child bearing years
What is a Spinster?
The artist accredited with making many story quilts
Who is Harriet Powers?
Trained in Paris to be a painter
Who was Ethel Moorehead?
Where was the first Women's Rights Convention held?
What is Seneca Falls, NY?
Held secret "teas" in her home.
Who is Mary Cassatt?
A group of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans.
What is a guild?
Someone who sews is called a
What is a seamstress?
Used her art skills to design banners, jewelry and graphic logos for WSPU
Who was Sylvia Pankhurst?
At 23 years old, she became the Director of the Embroidery Department at her father’s enterprise Morris and Co.
Who was May Morris?
The medal given to women who had been on hunger strike in prison
What was a Hunger Strike Metal of Valour?
Gave "chalk talks"
Who was Adele Goodman Clark?
Powers refused to sell her quilt, Bible Quilt at the Athens Cotton Fair, years later she sold that quilt for how much
What is $5?
Painted mostly domestic scenes of mother and child
Who was Mary Cassatt?
This movement came about in response to the decline in standards of craftsmanship associated with machine and factory production
What is the Arts and Crafts Movement?
Was a defiant "bad girl" of her time, spent numerous stints in prison, attacked a speaker with a whip, threw an egg at Winston Churchill.
Who was Ethel Moorehead?
The practice of an unconventional lifestyle, often in the company of like-minded people and with few permanent ties. It involves musical, artistic, literary, or spiritual pursuits.
What was bohemian behavior?
Slave quilts were laid or hung outside depicting different messages to whom
What were the slaves on the Underground Railroad?
Her work was often and is still today mistaken for that of her teacher, Edouard Manet
Who was Eva Gonzales?
This needle work art became a huge part of the women’s suffrage movement
What is Embroidery?
The act designed to protect sick or weak prisoners
What was the Cat and Mouse Act?
Was a forerunner of the movement in America, she worked towards equality for women for 50 years
Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?