JULIA TUTTLE - THE MURAL
Julia Tuttle The Mural! The evolution from conception in 2019 to reinvention to process to completion to the unveiling at HistoryMiami Museum 07-29-2021.
You can be part of this exciting group of talented textile people Join PLY-Miami today ! Find out what's next.
You can be part of this exciting group of talented textile people Join PLY-Miami today ! Find out what's next.
HistoryMiami Museum partnered with PLY-Miami by providing work space as we built Julia Tuttle The Mural, on view now in the Folklife Gallery on the main floor.
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 knitted, stitched, crocheted, hand painted, and hand quilted leaves and flowers that 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.
You can still donate to help offset costs for building this enormous work of textile art.
Click our GoFundMe link here https://www.gofundme.com/julia-tuttle-the-mural
We knitted, stitched, crocheted, hand painted, and hand quilted leaves and flowers that 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.
You can still donate to help offset costs for building this enormous work of textile art.
Click our GoFundMe link here https://www.gofundme.com/julia-tuttle-the-mural
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During Covid, the Museum requested Miami stories pertaining to how we fared during quarantine. I described things I did, projects I presented to my members to keep us focused and positive in the face of the unknown. Read my story HERE.
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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.
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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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