Focus on Vegetation (quilt) and analyze the Artist.
Loretta Pettway Bennett is a fifth-generation quilter from Gee’s Bend, Alabama; she is the great-great-granddaughter of Dinah Miller, a former slave and the ancestor of one of the prominent quilt-making families in the area.  Bennett has exhibited her work in several museums, including the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Orlando Museum of Art, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Denver Art Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  Additionally, her work has appeared in numerous galleries, including the Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle and the Paulson Press Gallery in Berkeley, California. Selected by the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE), Bennett’s work also hangs on the walls of United States embassies worldwide.
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