Download or read book Barack Obama Mini Quilt Portrait Series written by C&T Publishing and published by C&T Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Justice Sewing Academy is proud to present 30 unique postcards depicting former President Barack Obama handcrafted by future leaders of America. Use these postcards to spark conversation and savor as a historical keepsake.
Download or read book Journey of Hope written by Carolyn L. Mazloomi and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey of Hope is a gallery of more than 100 stunning quilts inspired by President Obamas path to the White House. The works range from the poignantly abstract to the grippingly realistic and feature techniques including piecing, painting, appliqué, embroidery, dyeing, beading, and more. Filled with the spirit of renewal and change that fueled the Obama campaign, Journey of Hope is a celebration of our patchwork heritage and the quilters art.
Download or read book The Obama Portraits written by Taína Caragol and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unveiling the unconventional : Kehinde Wiley's portrait of Barack Obama / Taína Caragol -- "Radical empathy" : Amy Sherald's portrait of Michelle Obama / Dorothy Moss -- The Obama portraits, in art history and beyond / Richard J. Powell -- The Obama portraits and the National Portrait Gallery as a site of secular pilgrimage / Kim Sajet -- The presentation of the Obama portraits : a transcript of the unveiling ceremony.
Download or read book Hope Never Fear written by Callie Shell and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-close-and-personal collection of photographs following Barack and Michelle Obama on their presidential journey. Award-winning photographer Callie Shell presents a firsthand collection of portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama depicting the guiding principles that defined their time in the White House. While documenting the journey from the Obama’s family home in Chicago to the most powerful house in the United States, Shell and the Obamas became fast friends, swapping stories about their families and sharing tips about coping with life on the road. Hope, Never Fear features over 100 compelling photographs from behind the scenes, including many previously unpublished, that give viewers a glimpse into the happiness, the stress, the triumphs, the pressures, and everything in between. Each photograph is paired with insightful quotes from Michelle and Barack that reveal their warmth, compassion, and unending commitment to service. In addition, Shell offers an in-depth introduction plus notes drawn from the diaries she kept during her time with the Obamas. Ultimately, it makes foran affecting, profoundly personal insight into an extraordinary couple who energized and empowered millions of people around the world. Praise for Hope, Never Fear “[Shell’s] photos display the raw emotions and intimate moments the entire family endured during his hard-fought campaign. Shell weaves in insightful quotes from Barack and Michelle that reveal their commitment to fighting for the country and uniting the American people.” —Business Insider “[Shell] was able to document the incredible relationship between all members of the Obama family. We see Michelle Obama and their children as they fully support Barack’s dreams, while also maintaining their own sense of normalcy. Living in a time when politics has clearly divided the nation, Hope, Never Fear is a reminder of a different time filled with the promise of change.” —My Modern Met
Download or read book Modern Quilts Postcards written by C&T Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the talented quilters of the Modern Quilt Guild comes this set of thirty postcards, featuring beautiful images from the best-selling book Modern Quilts: Designs of the New Century. Each postcard showcases a quilt by a different artist, including Maritza Soto, Shannon Page, Kari Anderson, and many others. Send the cards to friends and family or keep them for yourself! The set makes a wonderful gift for anyone, but especially for quilters and art lovers.
Download or read book Barack Obama written by Nikki Grimes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestselling picture-book biography of President Barack Obama is now in paperback. Ever since Barack Obama was young, Hope has lived inside him. From the beaches of Hawaii to the streets of Chicago, from the jungles of Indonesia to the plains of Kenya, he has held on to Hope. Even as a boy, Barack knew he wasn’t quite like anybody else, but through his journeys he found the ability to listen to Hope and become what he was meant to be: a bridge to bring people together. This is the moving story of our 44th President, told by Nikki Grimes and illustrated by Bryan Collier, both winners of the Coretta Scott King Award. Barack Obama has motivated Americans to believe with him, to believe that every one of us has the power to change ourselves and change our world.
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Download or read book Emancipation s Daughters written by Riché Richardson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Emancipation's Daughters, Riché Richardson examines iconic black women leaders who have contested racial stereotypes and constructed new national narratives of black womanhood in the United States. Drawing on literary texts and cultural representations, Richardson shows how five emblematic black women—Mary McLeod Bethune, Rosa Parks, Condoleezza Rice, Michelle Obama, and Beyoncé—have challenged white-centered definitions of American identity. By using the rhetoric of motherhood and focusing on families and children, these leaders have defied racist images of black women, such as the mammy or the welfare queen, and rewritten scripts of femininity designed to exclude black women from civic participation. Richardson shows that these women's status as national icons was central to reconstructing black womanhood in ways that moved beyond dominant stereotypes. However, these formulations are often premised on heteronormativity and exclude black queer and trans women. Throughout Emancipation's Daughters, Richardson reveals new possibilities for inclusive models of blackness, national femininity, and democracy.
Download or read book Cutting Edge Art Quilts written by Mary W. Kerr and published by Schiffer Craft. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has never been a more exciting time to be a quilter or a lover of beautiful quilts. In the past quarter century, the quilt community has expanded in both style and technique, giving birth to a diverse and exciting new category of quilts. This book presents a sampling of the considerable talent present in the Art Quilt community today. Accompanied by 270 color images, fifty-one quilters share their love of the craft and encourage others in the field of textile art by offering design and technique tips. Design processes include color play, alternative fiber, threadwork, and embellishments. This book is a great resource for quilt lovers, textile collectors, and design students.
Download or read book Tar Beach written by Faith Ringgold and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARD WINNER • CALDECOTT HONOR BOOK • A NEW YORK TIMES BEST ILLUSTRATED BOOK Acclaimed artist Faith Ringgold seamless weaves fiction, autobiography, and African American history into a magical story that resonates with the universal wish for freedom, and will be cherished for generations. Cassie Louise Lightfoot has a dream: to be free to go wherever she wants for the rest of her life. One night, up on “tar beach,” the rooftop of her family’s Harlem apartment building, her dreams come true. The stars lift her up, and she flies over the city, claiming the buildings and the city as her own. As Cassie learns, anyone can fly. “All you need is somewhere to go you can’t get to any other way. The next thing you know, you’re flying among the stars.”
Download or read book Crafted Lives written by Patricia Ann Turner and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Turner also probes the ways in which African American quilts and quilters have been depicted, discussed, criticized, and characterized. From the displays of Harriet Powers's creations at the turn of the twentieth century to the contemporary exhibits of such black art-quilts as those promoted by Carolyn Mazloomi, and such utilitarian expressions as the celebrated examples from Gee's Bend, Alabama, Turner uses quilts to assess the level of control African Americans have had or have not had over the materials they craft and the art they leave as legacy to new generations."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Modern Plus Sign Quilts written by Cheryl Brickey and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Add to your quilting repertoire with the universally popular plus sign! These 16 bold, graphic designs range from modern to traditional, with something for every skill level and style. Detailed instructions and illustrations walk confident beginners and intermediate quilters through traditional piecing, paper piecing, and fusible machine appliqué to create baby quilts, throw quilts, bed quilts, and more. Use your favorite types of fabric—solids, prints, precuts, or scraps—to make the projects your own.
Download or read book Radiant Fugitives written by Nawaaz Ahmed and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION FINALIST FOR PUBLISHING TRIANGLE'S EDMUND WHITE DEBUT FICTION AWARD In the last weeks of her pregnancy, a Muslim Indian lesbian living in San Francisco receives a visit from her estranged mother and sister that surfaces long held secrets and betrayals in this "sweeping family saga . . . with the beautiful specificity of real lives lived, loved, and fought for" (Entertainment Weekly) Working as a consultant for Kamala Harris’s attorney general campaign in Obama-era San Francisco, Seema has constructed a successful life for herself in the West, despite still struggling with her father’s long-ago decision to exile her from the family after she came out as lesbian. Now, nine months pregnant and estranged from the Black father of her unborn son, Seema seeks solace in the company of those she once thought lost to her: her ailing mother, Nafeesa, traveling alone to California from Chennai, and her devoutly religious sister, Tahera, a doctor living in Texas with her husband and children. But instead of a joyful reconciliation anticipating the birth of a child, the events of this fateful week unearth years of betrayal, misunderstanding, and complicated layers of love—a tapestry of emotions as riveting and disparate as the era itself. Told from the point of view of Seema’s child at the moment of his birth, and infused with the poetry of Wordsworth and Keats and verses from the Quran, Radiant Fugitives is a moving tale of a family and a country grappling with acceptance, forgiveness, and enduring love.
Download or read book Rigged written by David Shimer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of the covert struggle between Russia and America to influence elections, why the threat to American democracy is greater than ever, and what we can do about it. This is "the first book to put the story of Russian interference into a broader context.... Extraordinary and gripping" (The New York Times Book Review). Russia's interference in the 2016 elections marked only the latest chapter of a hidden and revelatory history. In Rigged, David Shimer tells the sweeping story of covert electoral interference past and present. He exposes decades of secret operations—by the KGB, the CIA, and Vladimir Putin's Russia—to shape electoral outcomes, melding deep historical research with groundbreaking interviews with more than 130 key players, from leading officials in both the Trump and Obama administrations to CIA and NSA directors to a former KGB general. Throughout history and in 2016, both Russian and American operations achieved their greatest success by influencing the way voters think, rather than tampering with actual vote tallies. Understanding 2016 as one battle in a much longer war is essential to comprehending the critical threat currently posed to America's electoral sovereignty and how to defend against it. Illuminating how the lessons of the past can be used to protect our democracy in the future, Rigged is an essential book for readers of every political persuasion.
Download or read book Quilty Password Keeper written by and published by C&T Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pretty, practical password keeper, featuring a beautiful quilt from Bonnie K. Hunter, stores all of your online passwords in one handy place. The pages are organized alphabetically be website for easy reference, while the spiral binding provides quick access to each page. Plus, Bonnie's signature quotes are sprinkled throughout! Bonnie K. Hunter fans will want to buy one for themselves and one as a gift. Charming and useful--never forget a password again! Easy-to-use spiral binding and alphabetized pages Makes a great gift for any quilt lover
Download or read book Denyse Schmidt Quilts written by Denyse Schmidt and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Denyse Schmidt Quilts, the ultimate resource for the home quilter, Schmidt reveals the secrets behind her most popular designs. Thirty projects range from the simple to the challenging, from patchwork slippers and aprons to tote bags and pillows to her beloved quilt patterns, offering something for every level of quilter. Schmidt reviews the fundamentals of quilting and provides easy-to-follow instructions, patterns, sewing tips, and an artful approach to design basics. With engaging wisdom and beautiful step-by-step color photography throughout, Denyse Schmidt Quilts will inspire beginning and skilled crafters alike to embrace this age-old tradition with a new and modern twist.
Download or read book Stash Lab written by Tonya Alexander and published by Martingale. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find fresh new ways to combine the scraps you've been collecting. Perfect for budget-minded quilters, these visually pleasing designs give a modern slant to traditional quilt blocks. Discover three "scrap equations" that will make you fearless about fabric: neutrals + scraps = balance, value > color, and more = better Choose from 11 appealing projects for confident beginners and beyond Learn time-saving techniques for sorting and storing your scraps so you can easily transform them into fabulous quilts
