Loretta Pettway Bennett

 

Loretta Pettway Bennett was born in 1960 in Gee’s Bend, a fifth-generation Quilter, and one of the youngest to continue hand-stitching quilts in the renowned Gee’s Bend style. She is the oldest daughter of Tom and Qunnie Pettway. Her ancestry traces back to Dinah Miller, a great-great-great Grandmother, who was one of the first enslaved people to have arrived in Gee’s Bend.

Loretta’s work was included in the 2006 traveling museum exhibition, Gee’s Bend, The Architecture of the Quilt, originating at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Additional museum venues for this exhibition include the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Orlando Museum of Art, The Walters Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, the Speed Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum and the Philadelphia Art Museum.

Work by Loretta Pettway Bennett is in the permanent collection of the Studio Museum, Harlem and the Legacy Museum, Montgomery, AL

Loretta Pettway Bennett was featured in the following gallery exhibition:

My Way: Gee's Bend Today, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, 2025.

 

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