Jane Burch Cochran

Jane Burch Cochran is a fabric artist who is known for her work that combines traditional American quiltmaking with painting and fabric embellishments. She received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for quiltmaking in 1993. The Smithsonian and the National Quilt Museum display her quilts.[1]

Cochran, who marched in a Freedom March with Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1964, created "Crossing to Freedom," a 7 ft by 10 ft quilt for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center that depicts symbolic images from the anti-slavery era to the Civil Rights Movement.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Jane Burch Cochran". The Art of Quilting. Public Broadcasting Service. March 2007. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  2. ↑ Bauer, Marilyn (August 1, 2004). "Crossing to Freedom' evolved". www.cincinnati.com. Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved 9 March 2015.


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