17 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: Success can mean different things at different times of your life. After a successful legal career, I...
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O.V. Brantley
Oct 13, 20231 min read
18 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: The smallest quilt in the exhibit with a powerful message. I am so excited that my solo exhibit of...
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O.V. Brantley
Oct 12, 20231 min read
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 9, 20231 min read
22 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: Tessellaton quilts create the same pattern repeated with no spaces. This is my version in red and...
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O.V. Brantley
Oct 8, 20231 min read
23 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: This is the oldest quilt in the exhibit. It was made in 2001. I am so excited that my solo exhibit of...
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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 6, 20231 min read
25 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: Fortitude is the key to success. Dig deep and never give up. I am so excited that my solo exhibit of...
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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 4, 20231 min read
27 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: I lsurvived menopause. Enough said. I am so excited that my solo exhibit of red and white quilts will...
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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 2, 20231 min read
29 Days Until “Long Time Coming” Opens at the International Quilt Festival
30 Days of 30 Red and White Quilts: I love learning new quilting techniques. Be Kind Kawandi was created using the technique Indian women...
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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
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
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
Jun 14, 20231 min read
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Voting Rights in Alabama Case
Surprisingly, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision that upholds the idea of one person one vote. The Court directed the...
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O.V. Brantley
May 19, 20231 min read
My Long Time Coming Exhibit Shipped to Houston
This week I shipped 47 red and white quilts to the International Quilt Festival office in Houston via UPS. It took me forever to decide...
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