Gloria Garrett, Quilt Block

Monument Quilt square is a 8’x8’ fabric and sharpie marker piece created in 2018 by Gloria Garrett, FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, and Anonymous Artists from Councilwoman Rita R. Church Community Center in Clifton Park. The quilt is divided into four quadrants, with a variety of colorful fabrics. Garrett’s is in the bottom left quadrant. It has a solid red background with a large rectangle in the center with thin stripes of white and light pink. Laid over top of the striped fabric in the center is white lacy fabric made up of large flowers, thin stems, and small leaves. The leaves have been painted over with dark green that speckles the fabric but allows the white to still peek through. The flowers are painted with smudges of color such as red, purple, blue, and yellow. Outside of the rectangle on the solid red background, there are white speckles scattered throughout. In the four corners there are small white rectangles with block letters in sharpie and thin lines of blue paint on the border. They each say (from top left to bottom right): “You,” “Are,” “Not,” “Alone.” In the center above and below the piece of rectangular fabric there are large letters that are painted on in overlapping blue, green, and yellow pigments. They say (From top center left to bottom center right): “You are loved and beautiful.” The upper left quilt has a solid, black background with a bright red fabric square in the center. Within the red square, there is handwritten text in large blue painted letters which says (from top to bottom): “Stop the violence. God is love.” The words are flanked by two hearts painted on in the same blue. Throughout the square are faint speckles of yellow and white. Flanking the middle red square on the left and right are a variety of bright, colorful, patterned pieces of fabric. The upper right quilt has a solid, cream background with a red square of solid fabric in the center. Within the square are three words painted in yellow, blue, and red that say (from top to bottom): “Love doesn’t hurt.” On the edges of the square there are six flowers cut out of floral fabric. The red square is flanked by two pieces of fabric- the one on the left is light pink and white striped and the one on the right is bright off-white. The bottom right quilt has a patterned fabric background composed of small green and yellow squares. In the center is a red square of fabric. At the top of the square is the word “Believe!” in bright yellow letters. In the center of the square are a series of hand painted pink and yellow flowers. Below the flowers are the words “Jesus is always around!” with squiggle shapes, all of which is painted in bright yellow.