Listen to Your Mother

"Listen to Your Mother" is Jean Ray Laury's portrayal of motherhood told through a comic book panel style.

About The Quilt: "Laury understood and used the power of the comic strip format as a device that was accessible and understood as a glance. In Listen to Your Mother she addresses the age-old challenge of child rearing."

Materials Used: Cotton, Paint, Marker

Techniques Used: Machine Pieced, Silkscreen, Machine Quilted

About the The California Art Quilt Revolution: From the Summer of Love to the New Millennium Exhibit: "California artists were among the first to embrace the quilt medium as their primary means of expression, charting new territory in art and quilt making, and leading the nation in creativity and innovation. The art quilt pioneers transformed a functional domestic object into an art form and inspired subsequent generations of quilt artists.  Their legacy continues in the work of today’s artists, who are reinterpreting the quilt medium with non-traditional materials and pushing the boundaries of what can be called a quilt."

About Jean Ray Laury: "There are few twentieth century artists who can match the breadth and depth of Jean Ray Laury's influence on quilt making. Laury revitalized the field of quilt making and encouraged design originality. In Quilts & Coverlets: A Contemporary Approach (197) she wrote, "If we can retain the structural integrity of the traditional quilt, and add to it a contemporary approach in color and design, we will achieve a quilt which merges past and present." She defined in 1970 what would eventually be called the studio art quilt."