We continue our spotlight on the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance by highlighting Michael Cummings. Michael, who was featured on The Quilt Show as part of a field piece, was interviewed for this piece live by Carolyn Mazloomi at the 2017 Quilters Take Manhattan event. In it, he shares his quilt, African Jazz #10, and "talks about his process, inspiration, and the tools he uses to make his art quilts inspired by music, African-American history, and American culture."

What are Quilters' Save Our Stories interviews you ask? "Quilters’ S.O.S. – Save Our Stories (QSOS) is a project of the non-profit Quilt Alliance. The project creates, through recorded interviews, a broadly accessible body of information concerning quiltmaking, both present-day and in living memory. Our archive for the original audio recordings and photographs is the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. QSOS volunteers from across the country conduct and transcribe these interviews. We appreciate their generosity of time and dedication to the project!"

From Quilters' Save Our Stories and the Quilt Alliance:

"In this live QSOS interview recorded at the 2017 Quilters Take Manhattan, Michael Cummings talks about his process, inspiration, and the tools he uses to make his art quilts inspired by music, African-American history, and American culture."

Click Here, or the image of the quilt below, to hear Michael's story.

Learn more about Michael by watching him in How to Do Quilt Piecing with Rosalie Dace | Quilt Novelist Jennifer Chiaverini | Quilt Studio Visit Michael Cummings.

(Quilt: African Jazz #10 by Michael Cummings - Photo from Michael Cummings' website, www.michaelcummings.com)