Phyllis Stephens

  • , Majestic
    Quilt with sustainable fabric
    198.1 x 101.6 cm
    78 x 40 in (unframed)
    213.4 x 116.8 cm
    84 x 46 in (Framed)
  • , Victory Dance, 2020
    Quilt with sustainable fabric
    198.1 x 162.6 cm
    78 x 64 in (unframed)
  • , The Royal Court, 2020
    Quilt with sustainable fabrics
    177.8 x 172.7 cm (unframed)
    70 x 68 in (unframed)
    190.5 x 185.4 cm (framed)
  • , Stepping into Destiny, 2021
    Quilt with sustainable fabrics
    127.3 x 94.3 x 3.2 cm
    50 1/8 x 37 1/8 x 1 1/4 in
    54 5/16 x 41 5/16 x 2 in (framed)
  • , Perfectly Flawed, 2021
    Quilt with sustainable fabrics
    88 x 52 in
    94 x 58 in (framed)
  • , My Life is a Bed of Roses, 2021
    Quilt with sustainable fabrics
    52 x 82 in
    58 x 88 in (framed)
  • , Redeemed, 2021
    Quilt with sustainable fabrics
    88 x 52.5 in
    94 x 58.5 in (framed)
  • , Sitting Pretty, 2021
    Quilt with sustainable fabrics
    88.5 x 53.5 in
    94.5 x 59.5 in (framed)
  • , About Last Night, 2021
    Quilt with sustainable fabrics
    52 x 82 in
    58 x 88 in (framed)
  • , Morning Glory, 2021
    Quilt with sustainable fabrics
    88 x 52 in
    94 x 58 in (framed)
  • , Raw Sugar, 2021
    Quilt with sustainable fabrics
    223.5 x 132.1 cm; 88 x 52 in (unframed)
    238.8 x 147.3 cm; 94 x 58 in (framed)
  • , Jungle Fever, 2021
    Quilt with sustainable fabric
    208.3 x 149.9 cm; 82 x 59 in
    221 x 162.6 cm; 87 x 64 in (framed)

Phyllis Stephens (b. 1955, American) is a fifth-generation quilt maker who lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. She is considered to be a master of African-American story quilts and has quilted professionally for more than thirty years. Her work has been shown at museums such as The National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky—considered to have one of the world’s top quilt displays—as well as the National Museum of Ghana in Accra. In 2010, Stephens was awarded a resolution by the Georgia House of Representatives for her print portfolio, For Crying Out Loud, a tribute to the Children of the Civil Rights Movement.

Notable collectors of Stephens’s work include Ric Lewis, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Oprah Winfrey, Arthur Lewis, Samuel L. and LaTanya Jackson, Denzel and Paulette Washington, and Aretha Franklin. Her work is in the corporate and museum collections of, among others, New York; Citicorp Group, New York; the National Museum of Ghana.


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