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Introducing Resist Rest Resolve Repeat
Resist, Rest. Resolve Repeat, 75 X 75 inch red and white log cabin quilt by O.V. Brantley, 2025. Machine quilted by Maxine Moore. NFS. My new red and white quilt series celebrates women who are bodacious, beautiful and brilliant. I call that the total package. The series is inspired by barn quilts because I am a country girl at heart, and I love barn quilt art. For each quilt, I imagine one tradition quilt block in red and white that must be very big, so all of the quilts in
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Nov 12 min read


Introducing Woman’s Work is Never Done #1
Woman’s Work is Never Done #1, 68 X 68 inch red and white churn dash quilt by O.V. brantley, 2025. Machine quilted by Maxine Moore. NFS. Part of the Bodacious Beautiful and Brilliant series. My new red and white quilt series celebrates women who are bodacious, beautiful and brilliant. I call that the total package. The series is inspired by barn quilts because I am a country girl at heart, and I love barn quilt art. For each quilt, I imagine one tradition quilt block in red a
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Oct 302 min read


Introducing My Quilt “Life is a Beautiful Symphony” Donated to the Atlanta Quilt Festival
Life is a Beautiful Symphony, 38 X 38 inch traditional quilt by O.V. Brantley, 2025. Donated to the Atlanta Quilt Festival. My “Sunday...
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Jul 262 min read


Introducing My Quilt “Never a Handmaid”
Never a Handmaid, 44 X 56 inch banned books quilt by O.V. Brantley 2025. Machine quilted by Maxine Moore. For sale. $7500. Inspired by...
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Jul 242 min read


My Quilt “Celebration Under the Freedom Tree” Celebrates Juneteenth at the Mason Fine Art Gallery
Celebration Under the Freedom Tree, 48 X 58 inch Juneteenth quilt by O.V. Brantley, 2024. For sale. $3000. You still have time to see my...
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Jun 181 min read


Media Alert! My Quilt “Good Trouble Library” is in Quiltfolk Magazine
“Good Trouble Library” in Quiltfolk magazine. Often life can be full of nice surprises. The kind that make you say, “I never saw that...
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Jun 141 min read


Introducing My Quilt “Celebrating the Beauty of Freedom”
Celebrating the Beauty of Freedom, 44 X 49 inch Juneteenth quilt by O.V. Brantley, 2025. For sale. $2000. The City of South Fulton ,...
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Jun 101 min read


A Night Out With My Quilts at the Mason Fine Art Gallery
Feeling like Cinderella! Opening night for a new exhibit Old Friends and New was May 16th at the Mason Fine Art Gallery. Three of my...
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May 221 min read


My Juneteenth Quilts Exhibiting at Mason Fine Art Gallery
Finally Found Freedom, 67 X 74 inch Underground Railroad quilt by O.V. Brantley, 2021. Machine quilted by Maxine Moore. For sale. I am so...
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May 91 min read


Tea and Talk at the EmpowerHer Exhibit
Tae Earl-Jackson and Tisha Smith Curator Tisha Smith and Center Director Tae Earl-Jackson out did themselves with Tea and Talk , an...
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Apr 141 min read


Speaking Quilts at the Civil Rights Memorial Center
India and I are getting ready to record my video for the Southern Poverty Law Center. “March For Black Maternal Health” is in the...
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Mar 281 min read


My quilt “Midnight Rendezvous” is part of “EmpowerHer” Women’s History Exhibit
Midnight Rendezvous, 56 X 66 inch digital art quilt by O.V. Brantley, 2025. Machine quilted by Maxine Moore. For sale. $1500. I am happy...
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Mar 121 min read


Remembering Bloody Sunday
Although Congressman John Lewis did many brave things in his life, he is best known for what happened on the Edmund Pettus Bridge March...
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Mar 111 min read


Kicking Off Black History Month With a New Book!
The cover of “Good Trouble Quilts.” I wrote a book! Well, wrote a book is a small exaggeration. 😂 Technically, I curated and edited a...
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Feb 11 min read


A Thoughtful Review of the Patterns in Abstraction Exhibit at the High Museum
A Star Among Stars, 78 X 89 inch red and white quilt by O.V. Brantley, 2000. Acquired by the High Museum for its permanent collection. I...
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Dec 12, 20241 min read


So Much to be Grateful For!
What a magical year this has been for me both in my quilt life and my personal life! Top of the list is International Superstar Baby...
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Nov 28, 20241 min read


Speaking Quilts at the National Docent Symposium
I was honored to participate on a panel at the National Docent Symposium last week . Docents from around the country attended to learn...
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Nov 20, 20241 min read


A Visit With A Star Among Stars
The High Museum of Art in Atlanta has been exhibiting my quilt A Star Among Stars since June in its Patterns in Abstraction exhibit. Now...
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Nov 18, 20242 min read


Happy November from Home!
Baby Addison, India and I began November at the Houston International Quilt Show , but now we are safely home. It was an amazing trip...
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Nov 3, 20241 min read


Preview Night at the International Quilt Festival
Addison, India and I flew from Atlanta to Houston in time to attend Preview Night at the International Quilt Festival. Maybe it was...
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Nov 1, 20241 min read
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