13 Ways of Remembering
The Group of 13 is a response to absent African American women in so many texts I have read, particularly when I was researching African Americans in the
Gold Rush era.
The Group of 13 is a piece that stays together, however, one can be sold separately and it will be replaced with a new member.
Started as an idea in an 8th grade class I taught in SF. We had the idea to make "artists pillows" to commemorate women artists throughout history. All students researched and drew or transferred faces onto fabrics. Although a couple were cut into shapes, sewn, embellished, and completed, most students recut their pillows in a square format, transferring their faces, and discarded the
Years later I rediscovered the sewn shapes without the faces, in storage, along with other rejected pieces from projects. They all became "found objects" which I refashioned into to create these pillow paintings of women.