The Lynch Quilts Project
a community driven project by artist LaShawnda Crowe Storm
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
As I continue to work with/in the community, it is important to take note of those individuals, organizations and companies that have supported my endeavors through donation of their time, effort, financial support and/or in-kind donations over the years. The Lynch Quilts Project exists and lives because of the hands of the community. So many throughout the nation have breathed life into this project through their fabric donations, sewing/embroidery of blocks, sending their encouraging words, researching about this history and so much, much more. The Lynch Quilts Project is also suppored in part by grants from The Indiana Arts Commission, The Puffin Foundation, Creative Renewal Grant from The Arts Council of Indianapolis.
Quilt II,RedRum Summer 1919
Her Name Was Laura Nelson
This group of individuals were the first to join me on The Lynch Quilts Project journey. Nearly 14 years have passed since completing Quilt I, Her Name was Laura Nelson, and they are still here sewing, advising, supporting and bringing in new members steadily! Thank you!
Otis G. Grove
Arthur King
Marva King
Tamara T. LaVille
Sharon Matthews
Juline McClinton
Margaret Robinson
Pamela Tabor
Alexine Taylor
Patricia M. Williams
And an extra special thanks to Otis Grove for his tireless effort to promot the project and support me in any facet imaginable to bringing this work to completion. And Pamela E. Tabor for the many hours she dedicated to the project and in teaching me the fine art of hand quilting.
The Chicago Historical Society and Luciana Crovato and Russell Lewis for providing meeting space for our group to quilt and film during the last 9-months of the creation of Her Name was Laura Nelson.
For basic overall assistance and/or support for the project: Marian Hayes, Douglas Houston, Preston Jackson, Mary Jane Jacobs, Carolyn Ottmers, and Kymberly Pinder.
And finally, an extra special thanks to the many individuals from across the nation that spread the word about this project to their communities and contributed fabric and clothing for the creation of the quilts in this series.
Idamarie Collazo
Indiana Arts Commission
Indianapolis Public Library
Otis Grove
Marian Hayes (R.I.P.)
D. Del Reverda-Jennings
Preston Jackson
Malina Jeffers
Stuart Keeler
Barbara Koenen
Patricia Koger
Shauta Marsh
Puffin Foundation
Marilyn Michele Kunkel
Viola M. Ratcliff
Traci Hopkins Rodney
Charles Russ
Veronica Schwartz DeFazio
Larry Walker
Jim Walker
General Support
M. Eliza Hamilton Abegunde
Gabriel Akagawa
Arts Council of Indianapolis
Bashiri and Uzuri Asad
LaTanya S. Autry
Alice Berry
Luiz Andre Bispo de Jesus
Carla Crowe
Chicago Historical Society
Garfield Parks Art Center
Quilt II: RedRum Summer 1919
6 Unnamed Blocks
Anita Scott
Annette Smith
Bambi Alridge
Betty Fierson
Betty Phillips
Chris Worland
Christina Rice
Erma Johnson
Fredi Slaughter
Gloria Ivey
Jeanne Chaney
Kamau Foluke
Kate Fleming
Kelly Bedard (MSU)
Kimberly Dupree
Leslie Meier
Linda Cadore
Linda Parker
Marva King
Michigian State Student Quilters
Nathalie Dixon
Olevia Cooper
Otis Grove
Rosalind Wilson
Ruth Edwards
Sara Botruff
Shelia Bell
Tasha Griggs
Trish Williams
Quilt III: A Partial Listing
Shelley Botts
Carol Brown
Ruth Edwards
Ayize Hanif
Kianga Jinaki
Cordelia Jones
Caroly Lyles Shaw
Daren Redman
Pamela Tabor
Kadeidra Ward
Madison Ward
Quilt IV: Failed State (TBA)
31 Unnamed Blocks
Alexine Taylor
Anita Scott
Ann Horton
Betty Dandridge
Betty Phillips
Betty Waters
Cheryl Tolbert
Christine Eberts
Christine Rice
Cindy Eberts
Cynthia Shade
Cynthia Varnado
Denise Smith
Doris M. Barnes
Dorothy Green
Ella Stringfellow
Ethel Warren
Francine Landrum
Gwen McGee
Jean Cobb
Jeanne Chaney
Joyce Trice
Julia White
Kara Jarrett
Kathy Maskall
Kay Marsh
LaSheral Smith
Laverne Nichols
Lettie Hobbs
Linda Asbury
Loretta Pope
Lorraine Little
Louise Dilden
Marelyn Poepeshel
Margaret Robinson
Marva King
Merrill Warfield
Nanette Brown
Natalie Dixon
Natalie Molnar (MSU)
Nathalie Dixon
Nettie Hobbs
Nettie Nesbary
Olevia Cooper
Ora Frierson
Otis Grove
Pam Potter
Pamela Tabor
Ramona Lindsey
Rena Atkinson
Reneau Diallo
Riccarderilli
Rosalind Wilson
Rosemary Chrestenson
Ruby Johnson
Ruby L. Black
Ruth Edwards
Sandra Smith
Sharon Mathews & California Quilters
Sheila B.
Shelia Bell
Shelia McPhan
SR Dukes
Susan Trice
Tonya Shelton
Trish Williams
Verna
Verna Gordon
Vivian Johnson
Wanda Hanson
Yolanda Muhammad
Quilt VII: Lawrence and His Sisters
Al & Stephanie Thomas
Angela Moore
Arlene Harman
Barbara Willingham
Carolyn Sherer: In honor of the Coleman Family
Christopher Schell and Griffin
Cynthia Carmichael
Dolores Weatherspoon
Ellen W. Johnson
Emily Levitan
Esperance Uwayirege-Taylor
Grey Robinson
Haruyo Miyagawa
Jacqueline Johnson
Jaylah Cosby
Joel Dickerson
Judy Roye: Women’s work never done
KK & Jan Sharpe
Kymberly Pinder
Lillis Taylor
McTavish Quilting
Orisagbemi
Roberta Jones
Quilters of Color Network in New York
Sonya Muhammad
Tammy Davis
(The Experience Sadden that our children are not seen as children. We can never love them enough.)
Viola Ratcliffe
Winifred
(Burgundy is from husband’s shirt. Green from grandmother’s dress.)