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On July 16th Alabama lost one of its most celebrated
quilters. Mozell Benson was 78 years old
when she died at her home last week in Waverly.
Mrs. Benson’s quilts first gained national
attention in the exhibit “Signs and Symbols:
African American Quilts from the Rural South.”
Her work has also been displayed at the
Smithsonian Institution and the American
Folklife Museum. In 2001 Mrs. Benson was honored
with a National Heritage Fellowship from the
National Endowment for the Arts, our nation’s
highest award for the folk and traditional arts.
The following program is a rebroadcast of Anne
Kimzey’s 2007 interview with Mozell Benson and
her daughter Sylvia Stephens in which they
discuss their participation in the State Arts
Council’s Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program and
also the experience of having a home and quilt
studio built for Mrs. Benson by students in the
Design/Build Master’s program at Auburn
University’s School of Architecture.
(more)
http://www.arts.alabama.gov/actc/1/20120729mozellre.mp3
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