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Home > Blog > Scrap Up by Amelia Bennett
Amelia Bennett, Scrap Up, 1992, cotton, cotton/polyester blend, and wool blend (pant legs), 80 × 82 inches. Museum purchase with funds provided by the 2019 Collectors’ Circle and 2019 Collectors’ Circle member Omari Simmons, and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, 2019.44.02. © Estate of Amelia Bennett, image Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio.

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Scrap Up by Amelia Bennett

February 16, 2022

Amelia Bennett (Hazel, AL 1914–2002) started working in the fields in southwestern Alabama with her parents when she was eight years old. It was also in her childhood that she began watching her mother make quilts. Her mother taught her how to sew by tearing apart old pants and letting her practice sewing the strips together. On one occasion, Bennett did so well at sewing the strips of pants together that her mother backed it and made it into a quilt. The pride that Bennett felt because of this accomplishment carried her into a future of quilt-making. She sewed with her daughter (Sally Bennett Jones) and her sister in-law (Geraldine Westbrook), and the three developed a similar style that used strips of fabric, often from old clothes. Her economical use of repurposed materials and straight lines make for modernly stark and meaningful quilts.

Scrap Up is currently on view in Intersections in American Art.

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