SJR30Sonie is a contemporary fabric artist, fabric designer and writer based in Kansas City. Sonié grew up in a family of seamstresses and clothing designers. She started sewing at the age of four.
Her vibrant quilts draw from a centuries old wellspring that explores humanity through the crux of the black African American experience.
Sonié’s designs and stories are distinctive, her stories embrace and inspire, the mastery of her writing shares stories from her life’s experiences, the black African American culture, hardships, triumphs and the courage to celebrate life.
She designs from the heart, paints with fabric and embellishes with her needle revealing universal truths. She is a master at incorporating the boldness of African fabrics such as kente cloth, mud cloth and korhogo cloth with American print fabrics to create striking designs with an engagement of color dialogue.
She has conducted lectures and workshops on quilting at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery. Sonié has been invited to exhibit of her artwork in museums and galleries across the United States. She is the visiting curator at the American Jazz Museum.
Her fabric collections “My African Village and Drums of Afrika”, can be found in fabric shops internationally. Both collections have appeared in Better Homes and Garden Quilting, McCall's Quilting, Fons and Porter Quilting, and Designer's Quarters Magazine.
To date she has two books to her credit “The Soulful Art of African American Quilts: Nineteen bold Improvisational Projects” and “Opening Day" which is about the Negro Leagues Baseball teams.
Sonie is a 2010 Charlotte Street Award winner - a very impressive achievement.
Check out this short You Tube video that features her amazing quilts.
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