Oh Yes She Did! The Hope of a New Day

"To Be Swimming with the Fishes" quilt and Miz Cookie

"The Hope of the New Day Begun" quilt of the artist Ms Torreah "Cookie" Washington of South Carolina was selected to create a studio art quilt for the exhibition:

“Quilts for Obama: Celebrating the Inauguration of our 44th President” is being presented by The Group for Cultural Documentation, Inc., in collaboration with the Historical Society of Washington, DC.

It will open on January 11, 2009 and run through January 31, 2009. The opening reception will be Sunday afternoon, January 11, 2009, at 2:00 PM.

The exhibit is in the Small-Alper Gallery, at the top of the stairway on the second Floor. The address of the Historical Society is: The Historical Society of Washington, D.C.801 K Street, NW at Mount Vernon Square Washington DC 20001

The Historical Society is open Tuesday through Sunday, 10:00 am – 5:00 PM.

Roland Freeman, curator of "Quilts for Obama: Celebrating the Inauguration of our 44th President" is founder of The Group for Cultural Documentation and a long time advocate for African American quilters and their work. Many may remember his ground breaking book on African American quilters "Communion of the Spirits" and he is a 2007 National Endowment For the Arts' National Heritage Fellows.

Mr Freeman, also received the 2007 Bess Lomax Hawes Award.
Ms Washington's work has been seen in exhibits around the country this year.

In Cookie's own words the description on the quilt: "The label is in the lower back of the quilt. It is 5' X 7" Beloved friend Elayna painted the picture and I scanned it in to the computer, created the text and printed it on fabric paper. What you can't see in these photos is the letter beads that go around the small black circle. I sewed the word "HOPE" in 30 different languages. I am really pleased with the end result".

And a most excellent well done to Edna J.Patterson Petty also selected... See articleCheck out this wonderful article about Edna and her work. http://www.bnd.com/news/local/story/575997.html
And so are we..Brava sisters...well done

C'mon, let Me Show you Were it's At~A Vision Statement

"Mo' Sax" Art by Maurice Evans Check him out: athttp://www.blackartdepot.com/mauriceevans.htm



Today was a better day for me then I thought because at midnight last night I figured out something and put in to action. In part from out of the blue I got a phone call from someone on the East Coast calling me 3 am her time to talk. In the course of the conversation & her allowing me to talk out loud aided me in putting somethings in perspective that left to my own devices I would have suffered needlessly giving something far more energy then warranted.





And in talking it out loud and talking it through I clearly and relatively easily saw the answer for myself. And thus so being able to continue making my plan and making my plan work.

I will continue to do so until there is no more breath. But aim & purpose is to go beyond( which I am there I believe) now to métamorphose(transformation) I think a more active part of dreaming. As with many of us had to grow through a lot of stuff to get to that point.

I love how metamorphosis is spelled in French: métamorphose... In fact I am having it done in wall words and putting it right above my bed so I can see it every morning so I can stride into my day and into my world!






Yesterday I had something occur that was a little disappointing and I have to admit was a little hurtful. But what I was happy with was that I did not amplify it into something more then what it was. it was no more then business as usual with some who decide that I am invisible and whether I was worthwhile to pay attention to and making a decision that potentially and on a small scale changes something that I had just put in place. While I had not yet invested much in my plan, this decision basically force me to dismantle and rewrite. All based on an assumption someeone made and who had not bothered to talk to me before making that decision!






What I finally was able to put into perspective was knowing we live in a microwaved society, IM's, texting that people have been reduced to communicating in hyper-shortened "conversation. When in an emergency I could see the relevance, but now its been moved to a whole other thing jumping to very quick assumptions and making decisions that can affect someone's life that could in some cases be disastrous. And even more of a cocern is insisting the assumption is correct even when brought to your attention that it is incorrect...

Why is it that people are afraid to have real communication? And is it really important and critical that people have shortened interacting with other people. What are we afraid of? Are we that paranoid? Or we that hurt/disappointed/ an inability to share ourselves with others? It would be easy and I do think there is some validity to it that the meaness that has accelrated in "reality TV, the instant mocking of people failings, fragility, not so shining moments that people have made careers (and lots of money to boot) in a global world may have a sharing in all of this. And viewers take seeminly a delight though publicly most will deny they watch these modern day watching of gladiators/Christian martyrs being torn apart by lions in the Colisieum as entertainment like in ancient Rome.

I went off on this , but let me go back to my small example. While I was in my taking an assertive stand yesterday & while whatever decision was made for me, I unmade the decison by





1. not accepting the decision





2. informed them what action I will take.





Though the end results was the same, it was for entirely different reasons and I was proactive. There was nothing in all of this about defiance as I had not given anyone permission to make a decision for me, it was just again assumed. In fact I would suspect that there was no paying of attention to me doing this which would have been the status quo, but it wasn't being made for them. It was being made for me.

Neither was in my thinking was I asking permission or approval because there was no reason to do that, but also by not allowing myself to be unduly down about something that once upon a time would have been some great angst for me. People write their own scripts for their own plays all the time. In this case, as in others, they failed to inform me that I had to audition for the role or if I wanted to be in their play.





At then end of the day I want to be consious myself about assuming things about or for other people and if for a moment some stops and thinks before they be presumptious to do so for another to check and see if the other person wants it will help greatly.

That is what I am talking about in growing in the métamorphose .

And I like it like that...

Moon over Alaska

December 12th,2008 Last full moon in 2008 ~Talkeetna Mountains in Alaska

Photo by Chris Granger, N.O Time Picayune of Trombone Shorty

(l) St Charles Street car in rare snow in N.O.La

Charlie "the Bird" Parker

I shot this amazing tribute to Charlie "The Bird"Parker in his hometown of Kansas City ,Missouri home of the American Jazz Museum which housed this amazing sculpture.

It was a pleasure considering I had a phrase in reference to him in the poem which was also the name of the exhibit "If Jazz was a Color?"

By Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney©98






I f jazz was a color, what color would it be?

Blue as in 'mo better?
Cobalt, azure teal,
Sapphired, indigoed midnight sky?

If jazz was a color..it'll fire up red hot!
Cinnamon salsa, mustard tinged lavender lace.
Improvising multiple patterned hues & blues..

RHYTHMS!!

Effortless blacks & whites!
Shading elegant brocades in smoky velvet
Coltraned…

Billie, Sarah, Duke.
Fly a way Bird!
Groove on Wash- ing- ton!
(No Kenny G here)!

Miles awake,
Miles high!
Miles wide

Colors erupting like a Cannonball!
If jazz was a color, the color would be what the eyes see...
Blue! As in mo betta…
Yeah
All rights reservedJHM ©97

This was a review on the opening of the show at the American Jazz Musuem. The reviewer, Ed ,sadly fell asleep in death earlier this year. He was a vey kind man very passionate about jazz and a gentleman to the end.

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November 8, 2007

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“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” by Yogi Berra

WOW – I have really had a great week.

It all started last Friday, November 2nd, with the “If Jazz Was a Color” exhibition of jazz quilted textile collages by Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney in the Changing Gallery at the American Jazz Museum. Along with the visual treat of Jacquelyn’s work was the audio treat of hearing her recite her original poetry and the music provided by Dennis Winslett on sax, John Brewer on keyboard, Tyrone Clark on bass and drummer Brandon Draper. All of this accompanied by a tasty table of hors d’oeuvres. The exhibit runs through January 6th , so get down to 18th & Vine and catch it – oh, the art works are for sale and Jacquelyn has volunteered to donate a portion of her proceeds to the American Jazz Museum.

Fiber to Fashion story

Quilt "Sounds of the Men"
By Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney

The American Jazz Museum www.americanjazzmuseum.org

I stumbled upon this piece on me at http://www.fibre2fashion.com/


USA : Quilt artist weaves jazz waves in colorful stringsFibre2fashion.com - Ahmedabad,Gujarat,India

USA : Quilt artist weaves jazz waves in colorful stringsJanuary 3, 2008

World-renowned quilt artist Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney is exhibiting her creation at ‘If Jazz Was a Color’, which reflects and interprets the splendor and sounds of jazz music in a striking visual displays of vivid textile collages.The event that began on November 2, 2007, will go on through January 6, 2008 at American Jazz Museum.The community members gathered in the Changing Gallery for a free opening reception featuring live jazz with the Dennis Winslett Quartet and some special jazz poetry from Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney.Complete details here

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