Image of art quilt featuring Barack Obama, which was also part of the "Quilts for Obama" exhibition at the Washington DC Historical Society curated by Roland Freeman that ran through September 2009; companion of art quilt entitled "The Magnificient Michelle Obama"
"Obama Time: Always (Congratulations, Mr. President!)"
Political Series
By Riche' Deianne Richardson
Special Edition Print Card
Released on occasion of talk and reception at the Ambassador's Residence arranged by the U.S. Embassy in Paris, France, January 14, 2008
For "Un Patchwork de Cultures"
Photography by Keith Stevenson
"JoAnn and 'Junior Man': Easter Sunday, Montgomery, Alabama, 1954"
Family Series
By Riche' Deianne Richardson
Print Card 2 of 8
Photography by Keith Stevenson
"Riche' Deianne Richardson: Graduation Picture at St. Jude Educational Institute of 'The City of St. Jude'(The Last Camping Place for Selma-to-Montgomery Marchers in 1965)"
Self-Portrait
Print Card 8 of 8
Photography by Keith Stevenson
"The Ties That Bind: JFK,MLK,RFK"
Politcal Series
By Riche' Deianne Richardson
Print Card 1 of 8
Photography by Keith Stevenson
"A Tie, Too?: Malcolm X"
Political Series
By Riche' Deianne Richardson
Print Card 7 0f 8
Photography by Keith Stevenson
"Playing Venus Hot to Trot?": Josephine Baker"
(Commemorating 100 Years, 1906-2006)
Paris Series
By Riche' Deianne Richardson
Print Card 4 of 8
Photography by Keith Stevenson
"Remembering a Dutiful Daughter: Simone de Beauvoir"
(Commemorating 100 Years, 1908-2008)
Paris Series
By Riche' Deianne Richardson
Print Card 3 of 8
Photography by Keith Stevenson
"Playing 'Mammy': Not Hattie McDaniel!"
Hollywood Series
By Riche' Deianne Richardson
Print Card 6 of 8
Photography by Keith Stevenson
"Sweet Scarlett?: Vivien Leigh Playing Southern Belle"
Hollywood Series
By Riche' Deianne Richardson
Print Card 5 of 8
Photography by Keith Stevenson
The twenty-two minute short film "A Portrait of the Artist" on the art quilts of Riche' Richardson was taped on location in Paris in June of 2007, released in 2008, and can be viewed in three sections on YouTube. It premiered in May of 2008 at a conference on the U.S. South in Montpellier, France. It has been screened in a number of locations in Paris, including le musee de la toile de Jouy, the Mairie du 5e in tandem with the national touring exhibition "Un Patchwork de Cultures," the U.S. Ambassador's Residence, the Southern Studies Forum Meeting (Versailles/Paris): The Sense(s) of the South," and several universities. In the U.S., the film was premiered at the Rosa Parks Museum Gallery and Library at the opening reception of "Portraits from Montgomery to Paris" held on August 21, 2008. The film was completed with support from the U.S. Embassy in Paris and all participants attended the formal screening at the U.S. Ambassador's Residence, including the filmmakers Geraldine Chouard and Anne Cremieux, Riche' Richardson, Patricia A. Turner, who offered scholarly commentary, and Diane De Obaldia, a former Chanel fashion model and owner of the famed Le Rouvray quilting shop and gallery in Paris near Notre Dame.
Art Print cards have included images of print card set of 4 released in 2007 with 400cards in circulation distinguished by the artist's name banners on front and back, all complimentary, and now discontinued. The print card set of 8 was released in 2008 and totaled 1200 cards available. The third, a Special Print Card Edition of 250 featuring President Obama, was released in 2009 in tandem with the trip to Paris as a Cultural Envoy of the U.S. Embassy and participation in the Paris opening of the "Un Patchwork de Cultures" national exhibition. Some Obama print cards were donated to the guidance cousnelor for distribution to students at E.D. Nixon Elementary School in Montgomery who had attended the field trip to the Rosa Parks Museum Gallery and Library in 2008 to see "Portraits From Montgomery to Paris." No more of the original Obama print cards are available. The number of print cards produced so far totals 1850.
The card sets have been fun to produce. Photo shoots were set up on the balcony at my high rise apartment in downtown Sacramento, California or in Berkeley at Keith's, where my quilts were always shot against the amazing backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge! We also did one public photo shoot on the UC Davis campus during Black Family Weekend in 2007, which students enjoyed. This photo shoot was also filmed by student filmmaker Jamon Larry and an assistant. The 5x7 cards are designed in postcard format with information about the title, series, artist and photographer on the back. The print card sets are composed very carefully and balanced and modeled on a "call and response" format that juxtaposes images that are in ideological tension in some way. The evening of the reception at the Rosa Parks Museum Gallery and Library was very busy with the gallery talk, attending the debut of the film "A Portrait of the Artist" and mingling with guests, and since the catalog for the show was on hand, we suspended sales and very few of these print card sets were sold that night. Of the 150 full sets, 50 complimentary sets were originally distributed nationally in tandem with the exhibition. Though one or two print cards and perhaps a poster will continue to be released with each show, along with small sets featuring special series, a print card set of this size and scope will not accompany future art quilt exhibitions, so this one is destined to be rare as well.
This set of eight "postcard" prints produced in tandem with "Portraits: From Montgomery to Paris" is still available at its original price for $10, plus $3.00 for shipping and handling, and can be purchased by forwarding a request to joanne_kenmore@hotmail.com and mailing a check for $13.00 to the following address:
The Wagon Wheel
c/o The Flare Exchange
P.O. Box 6463
Montgomery, AL 36106
Cards are not sold or available separately. Checks should be made payable to Riche Richardson. Please allow three weeks for delivery after payment is received and processed. A more comprehensive selection of cards featuring my quilts will be produced and marketed at some point, along with some other items. Also, once this enterprise is developed fully and recovers the orignal investments related to production overhead for these sets, for which the photographer also receives a share, it will be one that "tithes double" on any profits, or 20% of the earnings, and contribute them to community and education initiatives. The same holds true for all art quilts sold.
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