School Days
date: label: Date
content: 2005
name: label: Artist
content: Ira Blount
notes: label: Caption
content: This work incorporates quilting, cross-stitch, and stencil. The center panel’s stitching depicts a schoolhouse, two children, and two trees, along with a meandering row of letters of the alphabet. Animals are scattered throughout the letters, including a bird near the “B,” a dog or deer near the “D,” and a turtle near the “T.” The green fabric border is stenciled with a geometric design in white paint and the quilt layers are tied with cream and green embroidery thread. The backing of the quilt is pieced from the same dark green as the border, and a dark calico cloth.
label: Caption
content: After moving to Washington, DC following World War II, Ira Blount mastered dozens of artisanal crafts. His love for crafting, learning, and community engagement would endure over the course of his long life and career.
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content: Anacostia Community Museum Collection
creditLine: label: Cite As
content: Gift of Ira Blount
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Anacostia Community Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2011.0004.0135
objectType: label: Type
content: quilted wall hanging
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: cotton, batting, paint, ink
label: Dimensions
content: 11 7/8 × 18 7/8 in. (30.2 × 47.9 cm)