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Karoda

I am here for Networking

About Me

African American Woman Artist Mother Grandmother Wife doing my best to hang on and in.

My Interests

quilting, fiction, poetry, history, art, genealogy, African American Studies, Pan-African Studies, Women's Studies, Indie movies, African and Middle East Literature, photography, mixed media art.

I'd like to meet:

quilters, artists, poets, mixed media artists, african american genealogists, people who like to cook, photographers, people who love blues and jazz, readers of african american history and literature, gallery owners, curators, creative folks, and folks who are either trying to get back or stay in their righteous mind!

Music:

koko taylor is my adopted blues mama.

Movies:

daughters of the dust, the great debaters, crash, babel,

Television:

Democracy Now, Quilting Arts TV, Paula Deen, LOST, Boston Legal, Monk, Simply Quilts, Carol Duvall. just about anything on FreeSpeechTV and LINK TV and PBS.

Books:

Anything by Toni Morrison. Anything by Gayl Jones. White Teeth and Beauty-both by Zadie Smith.

Heroes:

Ida B. Wells, Shirley Chisolm, Harriet Tubman, Julia Butterfly Hill, Willie Pearl Usher,

My Blog

Where the hell is matt?

where the hell is matt? I wish I could figure out how to place this video on my blog here but I can't...but it made me crack up and I just think it is fantastic...fun for the sake of fun that connects...
Posted by Karoda on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:40:00 PST

Where I am

I'm obsessed with quilting.  When I'm not in my workshop I'm thinking about what I'm going to do once I get back there.  When I'm not awake I'm dreaming about quilting.  I take my camer...
Posted by Karoda on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:17:00 PST

Rochester Contemporary Art Center features exhibit of Alison Saar art | democratandchronicle.co

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/... ...
Posted by Karoda on Tue, 27 May 2008 03:09:00 PST

A stitch in time captures culture

http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_9273784
Posted by Karoda on Tue, 27 May 2008 03:03:00 PST

Patchwork Art Of Rosie Lee Tompkins At Washington Museum

http://www.huliq.com/60289/patchwork-art-rosie-lee... ...
Posted by Karoda on Tue, 27 May 2008 02:57:00 PST

Many Cultures-One Art Quilt

This is an annual event co-sponsored by Central Kentucky Homemakers Quilt Guild and The Center for Excellence for the Study of Kentucky African-Americans held at Kentucky State University, an HBC, loc...
Posted by Karoda on Tue, 06 May 2008 07:38:00 PST

Spoken With Hands

a fiber art exhibit held in conjunction with the W.C. Handy Festival in Henderson, Kentucky on the banks of the Ohio River in Audubon Mill Park from June 7-14.  The fiber art exhibit will be ope...
Posted by Karoda on Tue, 06 May 2008 07:31:00 PST

Walking to freedom

I can’t get this woman out of my head courtesy of some reading material just before dozing off last night...she is a tall woman walking through a field at the edge of a road during the civil war...
Posted by Karoda on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:00:00 PST

Closer and closer

Tomorrow will place me over the hurdle of setting up the studio. Two bookcases, a cart, and the cutting table will be transported by Eric and then odds and ends, dibbles and dabbles here and there and...
Posted by Karoda on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:30:00 PST

Mary’s Voice in my Head

"you can’t meditate that shit away, your azz is sick"  always prompts me to get off the couch and get myself to the doctor.
Posted by Karoda on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:03:00 PST