writer | art historian | quilter

Public Library Quilts is an arts education project by art historian Dr Jess Bailey

Edinburgh | Scotland

I make quilts for kin & community organisers. My quilts raise funds for seed grants, mutual aid, and activists embedded in their communities of work.

Community quilt with Ashley J. May, Kin Folk Archive

Part I, Spring 2024 | Part II, Spring 2025

Art history programming for Yale’s centre for the study of British Art in London.

A collaboration with historian and hand quilter Deb McGuire

Within The Frame combines academic research with active practice and preservation, honouring the intergenerational exchange of technical, artistic, and embodied knowledge inherent to working at a quilt frame.