Mary Lee Bendolph

**Mary Lee Bendolph** (an haife ta a shekara ta 1935) ƙwararriyar mai kera barguna ce ta Amurka a Gee's Bend Collective daga Gee's Bend (Boykin), Alabama . Ayyukanta sun yi tasiri ga masu gyaran barguna na baya-bayan nan kuma an nuna bargunanta a gidajen tarihi da wuraren adana kayan tarihi a faɗin ƙasar. Bendolph tana amfani da yadi daga kayan da aka yi amfani da su don yin barguna don nuna godiya ga "ƙauna da ruhi" da tsohon yadi.  Bendolph ta shafe rayuwarta a Gee's Bend kuma ta sami ayyuka a Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Philadelphia da kuma Cibiyar Fasaha ta Minneapolis da ke Minnesota . 

A shekarar 1999, jaridar *[[Los Angeles Times]]* ta nuna Bendolph a cikin wani labari mai taken "Crossing Over", wanda ya lashe kyautar Pulitzer, game da ƙoƙarin sake kafa hidimar jiragen ruwa a faɗin Kogin Alabama .  

## Tarihin Rayuwa
Bendolph ta girma a Gee's Bend, Alabama . An rene ta a cikin al'adar dinki, wadda mahaifiyarta, Aolar Mosely, ta fara koyarwa a lokacin tana da shekaru 12,  shekaru biyu kacal kafin ta fara haihuwa.  Ta haifi ɗanta na fari tana da shekaru 14, wanda hakan ya hana ta zuwa makaranta bayan aji shida. Ta auri Rubin Bendolph a shekarar 1955 kuma sun haifi 'ya'ya takwas. A shekarar 1965, Bendolph ta shiga wani tattaki karkashin jagorancin Martin Luther King, Jr. a Camden, Alabama .  Bayan ta yi ritaya a shekarar 1992, Bendolph ta sadaukar da lokaci mai yawa wajen yin dinki. 

A lokacin fafutukar kare haƙƙin jama'a, barguna daga Gee's Bend sun sami karɓuwa a ƙasa lokacin da mata suka shiga cikin ƙungiyar ' Yancin Quilting Bee . Ana sayar da barguna a faɗin Amurka kuma ana amfani da su don dawo da kuɗi ga al'umma. Al'adar yin barguna ta hanyar bayi ta samo asali tun ƙarni na 18.  

## Sana'a
Baranda na Gee's Bend sun haɗa salon barguna na gargajiya na Baƙar fata na Amurka da salon lissafi mai sauƙi wanda aka kwatanta da barguna na Amish da masu fasaha na zamani kamar Henri Matisse da Paul Klee. Baranda na Gee's Bend sun fara jawo hankali sosai a ƙarshen shekarun 1990, wanda ya haifar da babban baje kolin a Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Zamani na Whitney, da kuma nune-nune da wallafe-wallafe da yawa daga baya.

Kamar sauran membobin Gee's Bend, Bendolph ta ɗaukaka yadi na yau da kullun (kamar denim da corduroy) zuwa waƙoƙi masu ƙarfi da ƙarfi. Hankali daga duniyar fasaha ya ba da gudummawa ga fahimtar Bendolph a matsayinta na mai zane, wanda hakan ya haifar da yunƙurin yin sabbin ayyuka, kamar jerin zane-zanenta na intaglio, waɗanda ta yi tare da haɗin gwiwar surukarta, Louisiana, a 2005.  

A shekara ta 2006, *nau'in bargonta mai suna "Housetop"* ya bayyana a kan tambarin hidimar aika saƙonnin gidan waya na Amurka a matsayin wani ɓangare na jerin abubuwan tunawa da bargon Gee. 

Bendolph yana ɗaya daga cikin masu gyaran gashin Gee's Bend da aka nuna a cikin shirin 2011 mai suna "Gee's Bend: Shahararrun Kayan Ado a Amurka", wanda ya kasance kashi na biyar na jerin shirye-shirye tara mai taken *"Me yasa Kayan Ado yake da Ma'ana: Tarihi, Fasaha & Siyasa* . 

Ta samu kyautar National Heritage Fellowship ta 2015 da National Endowment for the Arts ta bayar, wadda ita ce babbar lambar yabo ta gwamnatin Amurka a fannin fasahar gargajiya da ta gargajiya. 

A shekarar 2020, Gidan Tarihi na Kasa ya sayi ɗaya daga cikin barguna na Bendolph, tare da aikin wasu masu gyaran barguna takwas daga Gee's Bend. 

## Nunin Nunin

* *Gidan Tarihi na* Whitney na Fasaha ta Amurka, NYC, 2002.
* *Bugawa na baya-bayan nan daga Gee's Bend*, Mary Lee Bendolph & Louisiana Bendolph, E.lizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR, 6 ga Oktoba - 29, 2005.
* *Mary Lee Bendolph da Louisiana Bendolph: Kwafi da Kayan Rufi daga Gee's Bend*, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC, 25 ga Fabrairu - 1 ga Afrilu, 2006.
* *Buga daga Gee's Bend*, Mary Lee Bendolph & Louisiana Bendolph, Ayyukan Solomon, Atlanta, GA, Afrilu 20 - Mayu 27, 2006.
* *Gee's Bend: Tsarin Zane na Quilt,* Gidan Tarihi na Fine Art, Houston, TX, 2006.
* *Gee's Bend Quilts and Beyond,* Gidan Tarihi na Fasahar Jama'a ta Duniya, Santa Fe, NM, Nuwamba 16, 2007 - Mayu 11, 2008.
* Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Knoxville, daga 10 ga Yuli - 21 ga Satumba, 2008.
* Gidan Tarihi da Hotuna na Loveland, CO, 15 ga Nuwamba, 2008 - 8 ga Fabrairu, 2009.
* Ƙungiyar Tarihi ta Missouri, Afrilu 12 - Satumba 13, 2009.
* *Kayan kwalliya daga Gee's Bend*, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR, 2 ga Yuli - 1 ga Agusta, 2009.
* Gidan Tarihi na Tarihin Duniya na Berman, AL, 2 ga Oktoba, 2009 - 3 ga Janairu, 2010.
* Cibiyar Fasaha ta Flint, MI, Janairu 23 - Afrilu 18, 2010.
* *Kayan Aiki Tare: Kayan Aikin Mary Lee Bendolph*, Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Kwalejin Mount Holyoke, South Hadley, MA, Janairu 23 - Mayu 27, 2018.
* *Na Kai Zuwa Siyasa: Bikin Mawakan Baƙar fata 'Yan Amurka na Paulson Fontaine Press*, baje kolin tafiye-tafiye, Satumba 1, 2018 - Agusta 20, 2022. 
* Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Georgia, Athens, Georgia, Nuwamba 2019. 
* *Yin Al'umma: Bugawa daga [[Shafin karatu da Tarihin Brandywine|Brandywine Workshop and Archives]], Brodsky Center a PAFA, da Poulson-Fontaine Press*, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Maris - Afrilu 12, 2020. 
* *Ikon She*, Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Chapin, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Yuni - Agusta 30, 2020. 
* Sarah Shepard Gallery, Larkspur, California, Yuni – Agusta 1, 2020. 
* *Iko a Hannuna: Bikin Zaɓen Mata*, Gidan Tarihi na Palmer, Kwalejin Jiha, Pennsylvania, Satumba 29 - Disamba 13, 2020. 
* *An Kira Su Don Ƙirƙira: Masu Fasaha Baƙaƙen Fata na Kudancin Amurka*, Gidan Tarihi na Ƙasa, Washington, DC, Satumba 18, 2022 - Maris 26, 2023. 
* *Aikin Aiki: Nunin Kayan Zamani na Gee's Bend Quilts*, Cibiyar Fasaha ta Oliver, Frankfort, Michigan, 14 ga Fabrairu - 22 ga Maris, 2025. 

## Tarin abubuwa

* Babban Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha, Atlanta 
* Laburare na Huntington, San Marino, California 
* Cibiyar Fasaha ta Minneapolis 
* Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Zamani, New York 
* Gidan Tarihi na Ƙasa na Fasaha, Washington, DC 
* Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Jami'ar Princeton, Princeton 

## Duba kuma

* Gee's Bend
* Kayan Aikin Gee's Bend

## Manazarta