Background
Mazloomi was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to a family of amateur artists and painters.
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Featuring 150 color photographs, "Spirits of the Cloth" is one of the first popular books to showcase the work of contemporary African-American quilters.
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Mazloomi was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to a family of amateur artists and painters.
She graduated from Northrop University in Inglewood, California, and worked in Los Angeles as an aerospace engineer She continued her quilting experiments while earning her Doctor of Philosophy in aerospace engineering from University of Southern California in 1984.
She is a strong advocate for presenting and documenting African-American-made quilts. In the early 1970s, she encountered an Appalachian quilt at a market in Dallas that began her passion for quilting. Mazloomi is now retired from her job as an aerospace engineer and Federal Aviation Administration crash site investigator.
She lives in Ohio with her family.
In the mid-1980s after trying unsuccessfully to expand her small Los Angeles-based African-American quilting circle, Mazloomi placed an advertisement in Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine requesting correspondence with other quilters who shared this frustration. Her advertisement and the resulting correspondence led to the formation of the, a national organization of 1,700 members.
Mazloomi works in narrative quilts that tell stories through visuals. Common themes include music, inspired by an aunt who owned a Louisiana juke joint, and the African-American experience during the Civil Rights movement.
Mazloomi currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Alliance for American Quilts.
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Founding members of the WOCQN included Carolyn, Claire East. Carter, aRma Carter, Cuesta Benberry, Meloydy Boyd, Michael Cummings, Peggie Hartwell, and Marie Wilson.