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Bettye Kimbrell
Bettye Kimbrell (born November 22, 1936) is a master folk artist for quilting, and one of the charter members of the North Jefferson Quilter's Guild in Mount Olive, Alabama.
In 1995 Kimbrell won the Alabama Folk Heritage Award, the highest honor for the traditional arts in Alabama.〔( ''Quilter Receives State Heritage Award'' by Anne Kimzey ) Retrieved from the Alabama Arts website on December 3, 2009〕 Kimbrell received national attention in 2008 when she was one of eleven folk artists to receive the National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor in the folk and traditional arts in the United States.〔(''National Endowment for the Arts Announces 2008 NEA National Heritage Fellowship Recipients'' May 21, 2008 ) Retrieved from the NEA newsroom website on December 3, 3009〕 Her quilts have been exhibited at the Birmingham Museum of Art (2008), have toured five cities in Belgium in the "Schatten van/in Mensen" exhibit (2010-11), and were displayed in five cities in China as part of an exhibit sponsored by the United States Embassy (2012-2013).
==Her art==
Kimbrell is known for her intricate needlework and detailed quilting.〔(''2008 National Heritage Fellowships: Bettye Kimbrell'' ) Retrieved from the NEA Life Time Honors website on December 3, 2009〕 She uses traditional techniques such as trapunto, broderie perse and leaf pounding in her work and creates her own designs along with traditional patterns.〔Gigi Khalsa, "Bettye Kimbrell’s Leaf Pounding Quilts," ''Quilters Newsletter'', September 13, 2013, http://www.quiltersnewsletter.com/blogs/insideqn/2013/09/13/bettye-kimbrells-leaf-pounding-quilts/ .〕
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