Amelia Bennett
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Amelia Bennett (1914–2002) was an American artist. She is associated with the Gee's Bend quilting collective.{{Cite web|url=http://www.soulsgrowndeep.org/artist/amelia-bennett|title=Amelia Bennett {{!}} Souls Grown Deep Foundation|website=www.soulsgrowndeep.org|access-date=2019-04-23}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o57mBjxyVHEC|title=Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts|last=Beardsley|first=John|last2=Arnett|first2=William|last3=Arnett|first3=Paul|last4=Livingston|first4=Jane|date=2002|publisher=Tinwood Books|isbn=9780971910409|language=en|page=388}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oULezQjE5hwC|title=Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt|last=Arnett|first=William|last2=Herman|first2=Bernard|date=2006|publisher=Tinwood Books|isbn=9780971910478|language=en|page=38}} Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and is included in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art.{{Cite web|url=https://blog.dma.org/tag/amelia-bennett/|title=Amelia Bennett {{!}} Dallas Museum of Art Uncrated|language=en|access-date=2019-04-23}}
Early life
Bennett was born and raised in Wilcox Corner, an area of Hazel, Alabama, by her parents Fannie T. Westbrook and Alex Westbrook. She began quilting under her mother's tutelage at the age of 11. She met her husband, Willie Earl Bennett, in 1935 and they married two months later. Together they raised three children, including one quilter, Sally Bennett Jones.
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Category:African-American women artists
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Category:20th-century American women artists
Category:20th-century African-American artists
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Category:21st-century American women artists
Category:21st-century African-American artists
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Category:21st-century African-American women artists
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