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Mary Lee Bendolph was born on 1935 in Boykin, Alabama, U.S., is an American quilt maker. Discover Mary Lee Bendolph's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 89 years old?

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Born 1935, 1935
Birthday 1935
Birthplace Boykin, Alabama, U.S.
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1935

Mary Lee Bendolph (born 1935) is an American quilt maker of the Gee's Bend Collective from Gee's Bend (Boykin), Alabama.

Her work has been influential on subsequent quilters and artists and her quilts have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the country.

Bendolph uses fabric from used clothing for quilting in appreciation of the "love and spirit" with old cloth.

Bendolph has spent her life in Gee's Bend and has had work featured in the Philadelphia Museum of Art as well as the Minneapolis Institute of Art in Minnesota.

1955

She married Rubin Bendolph in 1955 and they have eight children.

1965

In 1965, Bendolph participated in a march led by Martin Luther King, Jr. in Camden, Alabama.

1990

The Gee's Bend quilters began to attract critical attention in the late 1990s, leading to a major exhibition at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, and numerous subsequent exhibitions and publications.

Like her fellow Gee's Bend members, Bendolph elevated common textiles (such as denim and corduroy) into vibrant and dynamic compositions.

1992

After retiring in 1992, Bendolph has devoted more time to quilt making.

During the Civil Rights Movement, the quilts from Gee's Bend gained national recognition when the women took part in the Freedom Quilting Bee.

Quilts were sold across the United States and were used to bring back money to the community.

1999

In 1999 the Los Angeles Times featured Bendolph in the Pulitzer Prize-winning article "Crossing Over", about the effort to reestablish ferry service across the Alabama River.

Bendolph grew up in Gee's Bend, Alabama.

She was raised in the quilting tradition, first taught by her mother at the age of 12, just two years before she began having children.

She gave birth to her first child at age 14 which prevented her from going to school after the sixth grade.

2005

Attention from the formal art world has contributed to Bendolph's self-perception as an artist, in turn leading to a conscious attempt to make new work, such as her series of intaglio prints, which she made in collaboration with her daughter-in-law, Louisiana, in 2005.

2006

In 2006 her quilt "Housetop" variation appeared on a US Postal service stamp as part of a series commemorating Gee's bend quilters.

2011

Bendolph is one of the Gee's Bend quilters featured in the 2011 episode "Gee's Bend: The Most Famous Quilts in America", which was part five of a nine-part series titled Why Quilts Matter: History, Art & Politics.

2015

She is a recipient of the 2015 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.

2018

The tradition of quilt making by enslaved females stretches back to the 18th century.

The quilts of Gee's Bend combine the styles of traditional African American quilts with a simple geometric style that has been compared to Amish quilts and modern artists such as Henri Matisse and Paul Klee.

2020

In 2020, the National Gallery of Art acquired one of Bendolph's quilts, along with work by eight other quilters from Gee's Bend.