Artist Finishes Painting Gee’s Bend Quilt Murals

Associated Press
Published: September 5, 2008

    GEE’S BEND, Ala. (AP) - An artist has finished painting wooden
murals of some of the famous quilts made in the Wilcox County
community of Gee’s Bend.
    The next step is for the County Commission to put the murals
along a 17-mile Gee’s Bend Quilt Mural Trail. Gee’s Bend native
Tyree McCloud has spent most of the summer fashioning plywood
murals of some of Gee’s Bend’s most famous quilts, those that
appeared on postage stamps last year. The plan is to place each
mural near the home of the woman who made the original quilt.
    Last summer, Southwest Alabama Tourism Director Linda Vice asked
McCloud to paint a mural of one of the 10 quilts featured on the
stamps. Vice liked the mural so much that she asked McCloud to do
murals of the other nine.