"Black and White Jazz Syncopation"

I have always wanted to make a quilt using shade and tint with splashing bits of color. It is like looking at a black and white jazz DVD where the musicians and the background is in black and white and the instruments are in color.

Completed: June 2006
Technique: Foundation pieced, machine and hand sewn
Fiber: Solid, batik, patterned cotton fabrics
Dimension: 76" x 76"
Artist: Valerie Deas

Valerie Deas, born in the Bronx and raised in Harlem, is currently an art educator in a New York City elementary school. With her encouragement, many of her students have been winners of the Ezra Jack Keats Book Making Contest, and Tai Pan Chinese New Year Contest. This year one of her students exhibited at the Tweed Courthouse (Alliance For Young Artists & Writers, Inc P.S. Art 2005 exhibition).

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