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Picture1991, Mother Dear comes to visit my 5th grade class at T.H. Rogers to share my Great Grandmother's Quilts.

​     I remember it just like it was yesterday...my grandmother (we called her "Mother Dear") reaching back deep into her linen closet and uncovering the most beautiful handmade quilt I had ever seen.  I was ten - visiting Detroit for the summer and needing some warmth for those cool Michigan nights.  "Who made this?" I inquired.  "Your great grandmother." 

Neither my mother nor Mother Dear sewed or were visual artists.  I later learned both of my great-grandmothers were masters of design and artists of the cloth.  One was a quilter, and the other was a high-end seamstress for showgirls of her era.
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Today, I celebrate my great-grandmothers and the creativity that they passed down to me through the name of my art studio, Pressley Green (named for my Mother Dear's mother, Annie Pressley Green).  To them I say THANK YOU!
by Aziza Mims, Director, Lead Art Instructor


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In Paris studying Architecture and Design.
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My first quilt and my first gallery showing in Washington, DC with some of my the youth I mentored.
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In Bahia, Brazil for study abroad.
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Standing in front of my first mural.
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