Chawne Kimber

Statement

As a textile artist inspired by quilts made by my great grandmother in the early 1900s, I strive to interpret traditional forms in an improvisational style. Using intentionally sourced cotton from discarded clothing and sustainable, pro-labor companies, I reflect on current events and my identity in the quilt form. I incorporate textual elements, crafting brief “slow poetry” on women’s work, gender dynamics, and race, including my life in math. Warm and safe utilitarian quilts swaddle cold hard truths.

Artworks

This is a “selfie quilt” that communicates with the viewer in myriad ways.

This is a collaboration with my friend, fellow mathematician and Southerner, Autumn Kent. She wrote the words as we chatted about missing the South as that first chill hit the air in Fall. It is, of course, about the myth of “home.”