African-American Quilting Traditions
The tapestry of art is woven with history, a fact that Sedrick Huckaby celebrates in his own art, which is inspired by his family, faith, and heritage. Huckaby鈥檚 canvases and works on paper depicting African-American quilting traditions recently were part of a two-person show at . 鈥淪ometimes I see the quilts as the African-American woman鈥檚 jazz鈥攁 circle of women conversing, improvising, and making rhythmic beauty together,鈥� says the visiting assistant professor of art. 鈥淭here is a great joy in doing these works because I am one of the few people in the world who could say he is doing a jam session with Grandma.鈥� Huckaby, who has won the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, the Lewis Comfort Tiffany Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship Award, achieves with his art what most every artist seeks: to connect individual experience to a greater collective truth. 鈥淚鈥檓 always trying to relate personal concerns with larger, universal ones. So many of these pieces have personal, social, and spiritual implications.鈥�