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thumb Gladys-Marie Fry (April 6, 1931 - November 7, 2015) was Professor Emerita of Folklore and English at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, and a leading authority on African American textiles. Dr. Fry earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Howard University and her Ph.D. from Indiana University. She is the author of ''Stitched From the Soul: Slave Quilting in the Ante-Bellum South'' and ''Night Riders in Black Folk History''. A contributor or author to 8 museum catalogs, Fry is also the author of a number of articles and book chapters. Dr. Fry has also served as the curator for 11 museum exhibitions (including the Smithsonian in Washington DC) and consultant to exhibits and television programs around the nation.〔("From the African Loom to the American Quilt" ) (2000-02-08). ''MBC.edu''. Mary Baldwin College. Retrieved 2015-11-19.〕 ==Biography== Dr. Fry’s father, Louis, was an eminent architect. He had earned a degree in architecture from Kansas State University and then worked with architect Albert Irving Cassell at Howard University, Washington, DC., marrying Obelia Swearingen in 1927.〔Missouri Marriage Records. Jefferson City, MO, USA: Missouri State Archives. 1927. Microfilm.〕 They had a son, Louis Jr. in 1928 (also an architect, who died in 2006). Gladys-Marie Fry was born in 1931 in the Freedmen's Hospital on the Howard University campus, where her father was Chairman of the Architectural Department.〔(Louis Edwin Fry ) K-State Libraries, Delta Chapter.〕 She spent many years researching enslaved African culture with a special emphasis on the material artifacts of enslaved African women, while earning degrees in history and folklore at Howard University and a PhD at Indiana University.〔(From the African Loom to the American Quilt, GLADYS-MARIE FRY ) The Fortnightly, Feb 8, 1999.〕 Dr. Fry was a Bunting Institute Fellow from 1988-1989 at Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA, and retired Professor Emerita from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2000. Dr. Fry was a frequent lecturer at educational institutions in the United States and abroad. She curated a dozen exhibitions that have been hosted at major institutions. Among them are the Eva and Morris Feld Gallery of the Museum of American Folk Art at Lincoln Square in New York City, the Renwick Gallery and the Anacostia Museum of Art of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama, Afro-American Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, and the Art Gallery at the University of Maryland.〔(The Quilt Professor, ZoomInfo )〕 Dr. Fry is famous for the following two seminal folklore works: * ''Stitched from the Soul: Slave Quilts from the Ante-Bellum South.'' * * This richly illustrated book offers a glimpse into the lives and creativity of African American quilters during the era of slavery. Originally published in 1989, ''Stitched from the Soul'' was the first book to examine the history of quilting in the enslaved community and to place slave-made quilts into historical and cultural context. It remains a beautiful and moving tribute to an African American tradition. Undertaking a national search to locate slave-crafted textiles, Dr. Gladys-Marie Fry uncovered a treasure trove of pieces. The 123 color and black and white photographs featured here highlight many of the finest and most interesting examples of the quilts, woven coverlets, counterpanes, rag rugs, and crocheted artifacts attributed to slave women and men. In a new preface, Fry reflects on the inspiration behind her original research—the desire to learn more about her enslaved great-great-grandmother, a skilled seamstress—and on the deep and often emotional chords the book has struck among readers bonded by an interest in African American artistry. * ''Night Riders in Black Folk History'' * * During and after the days of slavery in the United States, one way in which slave owners, overseers, and other whites sought to control the black population was to encourage and exploit a fear of the supernatural. By planting rumors of evil spirits, haunted places, body-snatchers, and "night doctors--even by masquerading as ghosts themselves--they discouraged the unauthorized movement of blacks, particularly at night, by making them afraid of meeting otherworldly beings. Blacks out after dark also risked encounters with "patterollers" (mounted surveillance patrols) or, following the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan. Whatever their guise, all of these "night riders" had one purpose: to manipulate blacks through terror and intimidation. First published in 1975, this book explores the gruesome figure of the night rider in black folk history. Dr. Gladys-Marie Fry skillfully draws on oral history sources to show that, quite apart from its veracity, such lore became an important facet of the lived experience of blacks in America. This classic work continues to be a rich source for students and teachers of folklore, African American history, and slavery and post-emancipation studies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gladys-Marie Fry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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