19 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: Financial security is an important key to a joyful life. I am so excited that my solo exhibit of red...
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O.V. Brantley
Oct 11, 20231 min read
20 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: This Praise Team is ready to fire up the church. I am so excited that my solo exhibit of red and...
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O.V. Brantley
Oct 10, 20231 min read
21 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: Wishing we could all love more. I am so excited that my solo exhibit of red and white quilts will...
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O.V. Brantley
Oct 9, 20231 min read
Available! Prints of Praise Team Praising
In the African American church there is often a group of three singers whose job it is to fire up the worshippers to get them ready to...
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O.V. Brantley
Oct 7, 20231 min read
Available! Prints of Racism — the White Elephant in the Room
Racism — the White Elephant in the Room #1 is part of the traveling exhibit of my solo exhibit of red and white quilts entitled Long...
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O.V. Brantley
Oct 7, 20231 min read
24 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: My version of an Underground Railroad Quilt placed in a landscape setting. I am so excited that my...
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O.V. Brantley
Oct 5, 20231 min read
26 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: During my professional life as a lawyer, I dealt with a lot of conflict. It's important to learn how...
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O.V. Brantley
Oct 3, 20231 min read
My Quilts are in the Worldwide Quilt Parade
The American Quilter's Society is hosting a Worldwide Quilt Parade. I have three quilts in the parade in the state of Georgia section. If...
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O.V. Brantley
Oct 3, 20231 min read
28 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: Of course there had to be a lawyer quilt in the exhibit. I am so excited that my solo exhibit of red...
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O.V. Brantley
Oct 1, 20231 min read
30 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: It’s not Christmas, but it feels like it to me. I am so excited that my solo exhibit of red and white...
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O.V. Brantley
Oct 1, 20231 min read
Wishing You a Happy October From My Porch!
We are blessed with great weather in Atlanta so we have great porch days year round, but October is perfect porch season in Atlanta, Ga....
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O.V. Brantley
Sep 28, 20231 min read
It’s Porch Season
Many mornings Olivia Victoria and I awaken our creative juices by having coffee on the back porch. Fall is perfect porch season! It's our...
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O.V. Brantley
Sep 22, 20231 min read
Introducing Tumbling Among the Stars
After making any new quilt, my next thought is "I wonder what this quilt would look like in red and white." That was the inspiration for...
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O.V. Brantley
Sep 21, 20231 min read
Prints of Red and White Quilts Coming Soon
As most of you who follow me know, I premiered my first solo exhibit last year at the Emma Darnell Aviation Museum and Conference Center....
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O.V. Brantley
Sep 20, 20231 min read
September Sparkles in Atlanta
It's not quite fall yet, but Atlanta is beginning to sparkle. My quilt Three Sisters captures the vibrant colors of fall that I love so...
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O.V. Brantley
Sep 16, 20231 min read
Friday Night
Happily home alone on a Friday night sipping wine and savoring the week. 🍷 It's important to learn to be ok being alone -- dreaming,...
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O.V. Brantley
Sep 2, 20231 min read
Guest Designer for the National Quilt Museum!
I was honored when the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY asked me to design a block for its Block of the Month program. I thought...
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O.V. Brantley
Aug 31, 20231 min read
Follow Me to Freedom in Art Quilting Studio Magazine
I was pleasantly surprised to see my quilt Follow Me to Freedom in the Autumn issue of Art Quilting Studio. Several of my red and white...
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O.V. Brantley
Aug 9, 20231 min read
Looking Back at the Kuumba Award
I want my sorors in the East Point College Park Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta to see the ad I placed in the Atlanta Quilt Festival...
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O.V. Brantley
Aug 1, 20231 min read
Introducing Follow Your Courageous Star
Follow Your Courageous Star follows in the tradition of the friendship star quilts that danced in the ceiling of my solo exhibit “Long...
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