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New Year! New Energy! New Quilt Adventures!
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
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Jan 122 min read


Introducing “Woman’s Work is Never Done #2”
Woman’s Work is Never Done #2, 68 X 68 inch red and white quilt by O.V. Brantley, 2025. Machine quilted by Maxine Moore. For sale. $5000. 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 traditional quilt block in red and white that must be very big, so all of the quilt
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Sep 6, 20252 min read


International Super Star Baby Addison Spotted at the Atlanta Quilt Festival
International Super Star Baby Addison loved Carolyn White’s quilt featuring her granddaughter. The quilt plays music. Rumor has it that...
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Aug 24, 20251 min read


SOLD! My Quilt “Rooted in the Beloved Community”
Rooted in the Beloved Community Rooted in the Beloved Community has been sold and delivered to her new home where she will be loved. She...
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Aug 11, 20251 min read


Introducing My Quilt “The Diversity of Africa”
The Diveristy of Africa, 50 X 55 inch African quilt by O.V. Brantley, 2025. For sale. $700. The Diversity Africa is the 12th quilt in...
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Jun 21, 20251 min read


Happy Juneteenth!
Celebrating Freedom Fearlessly, 54 X 66 inch Juneteenth quilt by O.V. Brantley 2024. For sale. $3000. Time does not stand still. Every...
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Jun 19, 20251 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 18, 20251 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 14, 20251 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 10, 20251 min read


Introducing My New Quilt “Look Good. Feel Good. Do Good. #5”
Look Good. Feel Good. Do Good. #5, 30 X 34 inches art quilt by O.V. Brantley, 2025. For sale. $350. Look Good. Feel Good. Do Good #5 is...
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Jun 2, 20251 min read


Speaking Good Trouble Quilts at the Shrine of the Black Madonna
Speaking about the “Good Trouble Quilts” book at the Shrine of the Black Madonna Saturday I was thrilled and honored to present a talk...
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May 25, 20251 min read


Celebrating Jazz in Atlanta with My Quilt “Jazz Festival Backup Singers”
Jazz Festival Backup Singers, 46 X 50 inch art quilt by O.V. Brantley, 2018. For sale. $3000. It’s jazz festival weekend in Atlanta! Jazz...
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May 24, 20251 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 22, 20251 min read


Remembering Brown v. Board of Education With My Quilt “Colored Girl Dreams”
Colored Girl Dreams, 80 X 80 inch traditional quilt by O.V. Brantley, 2011. NFS. I was born January 1, 1954. Later that year on May 17th...
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May 19, 20251 min read


Introducing My New Quilt “Look Good. Feel Good. Do Good. #4”
Look Good. Feel Good. Do Good. #4, 27 X 33 inch art quilt by O.V. Brantley, 2025. For sale. $350. Look Good. Feel Good. Do Good #4 is...
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May 12, 20252 min read


A Mother’s Day Exhale For ME!
A Different Drummer, 18 X 24 hand quilted art quilt by O.V. Brantley, 2011. NFS. Is it okay to celebrate yourself on Mother’s Day? I...
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May 11, 20251 min read


A Heavenly Mother’s Day Quilt Memory
Evora’s Earth, 75 X 75 inch row by row memory quilt by O.V. Brantley, 2001. NFS. My quilt Evora’s Earth was one of the earliest quilts...
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May 11, 20251 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 9, 20251 min read


Introducing My New Quilt “Look Good. Feel Good. Do Good. #2”
Look Good. Feel Good. Do Good. #2, 28 X 32 inches by O.V. Brantley, 2025. For sale. $350. Look Good. Feel Good. Do Good #2 ” is the...
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Apr 28, 20252 min read


Introducing My Quilt “Original Sin” Inspired by the Banned Book “The 1619 Project”
My quilt “Original Sin” was inspired by the banned book “The 1619 Project”.
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Apr 27, 20251 min read
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