As Ella Ray writes so eloquently in a recent article about Portland artist Adriene Cruz’ textile exhibit at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, “Handmade textiles, often pieced together from scraps from the world around us, offer a unique space to transform this racialized, gendered, and classed forced labor into an object that guides us to safety, keeps us warm, and memorializes our communities.” This quote beautifully encapsulates not only the depth and breadth of the layered beauty of the Gee’s Bend quilts but how that inspiration can be used to expand into larger quilting folkgroups with the use of multicultural media that include sequins and beads and mirrors and has the audacity to by titled “Daydreaming Again.”