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SUMMARY:Reception: Art Exhibition by Torreah "Cookie" Washington
LOCATION:University of Georgia\, University of Georgia Chapel\, Herty Dr\, 
 Athens\, GA 30602\, USA
DESCRIPTION:This reception is free and open to the public.\n\nTorreah “Co
 okie” Washington is a fourth-generation needle worker and the first in h
 er family to embrace art quilting. Based in Goose Creek\, South Carolina\,
  she is nationally recognized for her quilts\, rag baskets\, and fiber art
  that weave together African American history\, ancestral memory\, and the
  Divine Feminine.\n\nBorn in Rabat\, Morocco\, and raised in a family of m
 akers\, Cookie’s earliest memory of stitching was fashioning a Barbie dr
 ess out of a cotton sheet at age four—a creation her grandfather purchas
 ed for fifty cents. That small spark has carried through a lifetime in fab
 ric\, from designing custom bridal gowns to becoming one of the country’
 s leading African American art quilters. For Cookie\, quilting is never ju
 st about cloth. It is a way of honoring ancestors and preserving culture. 
 “Whenever I hold a needle and cloth\,” she says\, “I feel my foremot
 hers with me.”\n\nHer practice reflects the centuries-old tradition of A
 frican American quilting—an art form born of resilience and resourcefuln
 ess among enslaved people\, who stitched together scraps into both warmth 
 and memory.\n\nCookie Washington is the Sam Doyle Artist in Residence for 
 Culture and Community at the Penn Center National Historic Landmark Distri
 ct\, a Mellon Foundation funded partnership between the UGA Willson Center
  for Humanities and Arts and St. Helena\, South Carolina's Penn Center.
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