Rite of Passage
- grandmother's unfinished quilt top, molas, and African-American and European cloth
- 60 x 52 in
- Ed Johnetta Miller
I designed Rite of Passage after my daughter, Ayisha, participated in a ceremony at the Artists Collective in Hartford. Rite of Passage is a ceremony called Yaboo focused on traditional African family values welcoming adolescents into adulthood. I was taken with the dancing; the dancers looked like snakes slowly moving to the music. I was compelled to design a brightly-colored, full-of-movement quilt. I appliquéd figures of snakes around the quilt.
- Created: 1996
- Current Location: DECD - 450 Plaza Gallery (North Tower)
- Collections: Connecticut Artist Collection