"Freedom Fireworks" is part of Terrie Hancock Mangat's series of fireworks quilts.
In Cincinnati, they would bring the barges up the river every year and shoot off fireworks from them orchestrated to music. Each year Terrie would go and listen to the music, watch the fireworks, and then memorize how the sky would look, loving the marks of the smoke on the sky and the appearance of the light up above. These annual trips inspired her fireworks series of quilts. Freedom Fireworks was made using cowrie shells, mirror cloth from India, fabric from Africa, decoupaged pieces with pipe cleaners coming out of them, and more.
Materials: Mud cloth, African tie-dyed fabric, cottons, acrylic paint, Oaxacan embroidered flowers, cowrie shells, fluff chicks, vintage stars, African lipstick beads, vintage glass beads, bugle beads, paper m√¢ché, roundels, seed bead flowers, shisha mirror cloth, turquoise nuggets
Techniques Used: Machine Pieced, Hand Beaded, Painted, Embroidered, and Quilted
Maker: Terrie Hancock Mangat
Quilter: Terrie Hancock Mangat
Year Made: 1998
Owned By: NA
Size: NA
Shows & Museums: Art Quilt History - 1990 to 1999 (SAQA Gallery) ; Featured in the book "Art Quilts Unfolding"
Awards: NA
