For hundred of years the women in Gee’s Bend, a rural African American community in Wilcox Alabama, have been making quilts. The isolated community has out of necessity-lack of heat; reuse of worn clothing and unique creativity produced wonderful and beautiful quilts.

In September of 2002, “The Quilts of Gee’s Bend” exhibition opened at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the quilts and quilters of Gee’s Bend became famous. Louisiana’s great grandmother, Annie E. Pettway’s quilts are in the Gee’s Bend exhibition, which has traveled to art museums in Milwaukee and San Francisco. Louisiana Bendolph was inspired by the public recognition and response to the beauty and importance of the quilts and quilters.

She has now created “Three Squares,” a beautiful color softground aquatint print based on the Gee’s Bend quilt of her great grandmother.