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15 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: Always the crowd favorite when she comes out to play. She is my personal favorite because I love...
O.V. Brantley
Oct 16, 20231 min read


16 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: Sometime simple is the most beautiful. I am so excited that my solo exhibit of red and white quilts...
O.V. Brantley
Oct 15, 20231 min read


17 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: Success can mean different things at different times of your life. After a successful legal career, I...
O.V. Brantley
Oct 14, 20231 min read


18 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: The smallest quilt in the exhibit with a powerful message. I am so excited that my solo exhibit of...
O.V. Brantley
Oct 13, 20231 min read


19 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: Financial security is an important key to a joyful life. I am so excited that my solo exhibit of red...
O.V. Brantley
Oct 12, 20231 min read


20 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: This Praise Team is ready to fire up the church. I am so excited that my solo exhibit of red and...
O.V. Brantley
Oct 11, 20231 min read


21 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: Wishing we could all love more. I am so excited that my solo exhibit of red and white quilts will...
O.V. Brantley
Oct 10, 20231 min read


Available! Prints of Praise Team Praising
In the African American church there is often a group of three singers whose job it is to fire up the worshippers to get them ready to...
O.V. Brantley
Oct 9, 20231 min read


22 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: Tessellaton quilts create the same pattern repeated with no spaces. This is my version in red and...
O.V. Brantley
Oct 9, 20231 min read


23 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: This is the oldest quilt in the exhibit. It was made in 2001. I am so excited that my solo exhibit of...
O.V. Brantley
Oct 8, 20231 min read


Available! Prints of Racism — the White Elephant in the Room
Racism — the White Elephant in the Room #1 is part of the traveling exhibit of my solo exhibit of red and white quilts entitled Long...
O.V. Brantley
Oct 7, 20231 min read


24 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: My version of an Underground Railroad Quilt placed in a landscape setting. I am so excited that my...
O.V. Brantley
Oct 7, 20231 min read


25 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: Fortitude is the key to success. Dig deep and never give up. I am so excited that my solo exhibit of...
O.V. Brantley
Oct 6, 20231 min read


26 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: During my professional life as a lawyer, I dealt with a lot of conflict. It's important to learn how...
O.V. Brantley
Oct 5, 20231 min read


27 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: I lsurvived menopause. Enough said. I am so excited that my solo exhibit of red and white quilts will...
O.V. Brantley
Oct 4, 20231 min read


28 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: Of course there had to be a lawyer quilt in the exhibit. I am so excited that my solo exhibit of red...
O.V. Brantley
Oct 3, 20231 min read


29 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: I love learning new quilting techniques. Be Kind Kawandi was created using the technique Indian women...
O.V. Brantley
Oct 2, 20231 min read


30 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: It’s not Christmas, but it feels like it to me. I am so excited that my solo exhibit of red and white...
O.V. Brantley
Oct 1, 20231 min read


Prints of Red and White Quilts Coming Soon
As most of you who follow me know, I premiered my first solo exhibit last year at the Emma Darnell Aviation Museum and Conference Center....
O.V. Brantley
Sep 21, 20231 min read


Looking Back at the Kuumba Award
I want my sorors in the East Point College Park Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta to see the ad I placed in the Atlanta Quilt Festival...
O.V. Brantley
Aug 9, 20231 min read
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