JULIA TUTTLE - THE MURAL
HistoryMiami Museum is partnering with PLY-Miami and will exhibit Julia Tuttle The Mural in July. HMM requested stories of how we fared during quarantine. Read my story HERE. My artistic process, being Director of PLY-Miami, finding ways to be calm and positive with textile art in the onslaught of a global pandemic.
Julia Tuttle The Mural! The evolution. 1.We began with this image, b & w photo. 2 November 2020 - Stephanie colorized her. 3 December 2020 - Colette gave us access to FIU gallery to project and sketch Julia onto cloth, larger than life. Then in Jan, Feb, March 2021we worked on making components (not shown). 4 April we laid out the components on the cloth to see what we had - more than we thought! 5 March 2021 - members of PLY-Miami placing leaves. 6 April 2021 - Banners, leaves and some flowers in place.
7 April, 2021 - So excited! Julia is at the Museumi! Alejandra, Debbie, Dana, Marilyn, Pamela, Tina, Stephanie, Irene, and Gina. 8 April 2021 - Working in the Folklife Gallery, Debbie, Dana, Pamela. 9 Tina, Gina, Marilyn re-pinning leaves.
June 10, 2021 Bettina and I completed all the work; HistoryMiami staff installed Julia Tuttle The Mural in the Folk Life Gallery.
Why Julia Tuttle? Our mural will be unveiled at HistoryMiami Museum in It's a Miami Thing, to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the incorporation of the City of Miami, July 28, 2021. She is the only woman who has ever founded a city in the USA. Totally a Miami thing!
Become a member to be part of this amazing project! Join PLY-Miami today
and Donate https://www.gofundme.com/julia-tuttle-the-mural
7 April, 2021 - So excited! Julia is at the Museumi! Alejandra, Debbie, Dana, Marilyn, Pamela, Tina, Stephanie, Irene, and Gina. 8 April 2021 - Working in the Folklife Gallery, Debbie, Dana, Pamela. 9 Tina, Gina, Marilyn re-pinning leaves.
June 10, 2021 Bettina and I completed all the work; HistoryMiami staff installed Julia Tuttle The Mural in the Folk Life Gallery.
Why Julia Tuttle? Our mural will be unveiled at HistoryMiami Museum in It's a Miami Thing, to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the incorporation of the City of Miami, July 28, 2021. She is the only woman who has ever founded a city in the USA. Totally a Miami thing!
Become a member to be part of this amazing project! Join PLY-Miami today
and Donate https://www.gofundme.com/julia-tuttle-the-mural
Julia Tuttle The Mural is our visual love letter to the woman who, against all odds, founded the City of Miami in 1896. She is the only woman in the United States who has founded a city. Being a woman, she was not permitted to vote on its incorporation as women did not win the right to vote until 1920. We designed our mural from a black and white source image published in The Miami Herald. PLY-Miami member Stephanie Bickle edited the photo to provide a colorized visual sketch of Julia. In our interpretation, Julia is clothed in a brightly patterned orange floral print dress with a lacy white jabot. She emerges from a verdant tropical jungle of Old Miami with an orange blossom pinned to her bodice, beckoning, "Come Henry, bring us your railroad." He did.
We are knitting, stitching, crocheting, hand painting, and hand quilting leaves and flowers to embellish our textile mural, a 10' x 15' fiber art collage. HistoryMiami Museum is partnering with us to present Julia Tuttle The Mural at its summer exhibition, It's a Miami Thing. The exhibition and our mural coincide with the 125th anniversary of Julia's founding of our city.
To participate in this exciting fiber art mural, join PLY-Miami today.
Or you can help us by making a cash donation to help PLY-Miami buy materials and cover expenses for this significant project. Thank you!
Click our GoFundMe link here https://www.gofundme.com/julia-tuttle-the-mural
We are knitting, stitching, crocheting, hand painting, and hand quilting leaves and flowers to embellish our textile mural, a 10' x 15' fiber art collage. HistoryMiami Museum is partnering with us to present Julia Tuttle The Mural at its summer exhibition, It's a Miami Thing. The exhibition and our mural coincide with the 125th anniversary of Julia's founding of our city.
To participate in this exciting fiber art mural, join PLY-Miami today.
Or you can help us by making a cash donation to help PLY-Miami buy materials and cover expenses for this significant project. Thank you!
Click our GoFundMe link here https://www.gofundme.com/julia-tuttle-the-mural
Thanks to the dedicated members of PLY-Miami for all their work; our generous sponsors and donors for their contributions to this historically significant project.
Active Members: Alejandra Moreno, Bettina Blischke, Dana Yancoskie, Debbie Schwiep, Gina Jeffries, Irene Munroe, Marilyn Ludolph, Pamela Palma - Director, Stephanie Bickle.
Donors: Alejandra Moreno + Needles Knitting Group; Alexander Navarro, Aileen Phelan, Amy Burlarley-Hyland, Debbie Schwiep, Debra Chase, Debra Cortese, Donna Ruff, Gloria Romero Roses, Judith Berk King, K. Mitchell Snow, Lori Monaco, Irene Munroe, Marilyn Ludolph, Milly Cardoso, Pamela Palma, Stephanie Bickle, Stephanie Jaffe Werner, Colette Mello, Melissa Frantz, Karelle Levy.
Sponsors: Awesome Foundation Miami; Florida International University/Architecture + The Arts; HistoryMiami Museum
Donors: Alejandra Moreno + Needles Knitting Group; Alexander Navarro, Aileen Phelan, Amy Burlarley-Hyland, Debbie Schwiep, Debra Chase, Debra Cortese, Donna Ruff, Gloria Romero Roses, Judith Berk King, K. Mitchell Snow, Lori Monaco, Irene Munroe, Marilyn Ludolph, Milly Cardoso, Pamela Palma, Stephanie Bickle, Stephanie Jaffe Werner, Colette Mello, Melissa Frantz, Karelle Levy.
Sponsors: Awesome Foundation Miami; Florida International University/Architecture + The Arts; HistoryMiami Museum
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