In partnership with the Toronto Modern Quilt Guild, the York Heritage Quilters Guild is presenting Dr. Chawne Kimber, at the Toronto Modern Quilt Guild virtual meeting being held on Sunday, July 26, 2020 at 3:30 p.m.

Dr. Kimber is an award-winning textile artist who exhibits quilts and embroidery in museums, galleries, and festivals all over the United States.

Through cultivation of cotton in rural Alabama, some of her ancestors (unwillingly) participated in building the United States. Inspired by quilts made by these ancestors in the late 1800’s, Chawne interprets traditional patchwork forms in an improvisational style and indulges in political confrontation in quilt form. When not manipulating cotton, Chawne is a professor of mathematics at a small liberal arts college in the Northeast United States.

Her lecture is entitled “When the Cotton is High: Social Justice and Textiles”.

Dr. Kimber says: “For centuries women have used their utilitarian and decorative textile work to express their politics and opinions on issues of the day. We’ll take a look at some historical examples and then romp through my own work. My quilts use the lens of identity and difference to confront social conflicts like campus rape culture, Black Lives Matter, and censorship.”

All YHQG members are entitled to attend this meeting and will be provided with the Zoom co-ordinates prior to the meeting.