O.V. Speaks Quilts

Child’s Play, 68 X 68 inch red and white applique 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 the series are 68

Church Angel #1, 32 X 36 inch angel quilt by O.V. Brantley, 2026. For sale. $600. I am so excited about 2026! I have a feeling it is going to be my best quilt year yet. My quilt calendar is already full! Here are some things I will be doing in 2026: Warp, Weft and Wonder , my first exhibit in 2026, opens January 16th and continues until March 1st. I will be exhibiting my angel quilts in a group exhibition with three other fiber artists at the First Existentialist Congregation

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

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

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

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...

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...

“Good Trouble Library” in Quiltfolk magazine. Often life can be full of nice surprises. The kind that make you say, “I never saw that...

Celebrating the Beauty of Freedom, 44 X 49 inch Juneteenth quilt by O.V. Brantley, 2025. For sale. $2000. The City of South Fulton ,...

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...

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...

Tae Earl-Jackson and Tisha Smith Curator Tisha Smith and Center Director Tae Earl-Jackson out did themselves with Tea and Talk , an...

India and I are getting ready to record my video for the Southern Poverty Law Center. “March For Black Maternal Health” is in the...

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...

Although Congressman John Lewis did many brave things in his life, he is best known for what happened on the Edmund Pettus Bridge March...

The cover of “Good Trouble Quilts.” I wrote a book! Well, wrote a book is a small exaggeration. 😂 Technically, I curated and edited a...

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...

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...

I was honored to participate on a panel at the National Docent Symposium last week . Docents from around the country attended to learn...

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...