Lucinda Toomer
Lucinda Toomer (February 5, 1888 na September 1, 1983) bụ ónyé America na-ese ihe nke na-arụ ọrụ na omenala ndị Africa na America nke ime akwa. A maara akwa ya màkà ihe ha siri ike, ụda ányá, na ụdị improvisational. Ha nọ n'ihu nke mmụba nke mmata mba màkà ụdị nka n'oge afọ 1990.

Oge ọ malitere 
A mụrụ Lucinda Toomer Lucinda Hodrick na Stewart County, Georgia. Ọ bụ nwa mbụ n'ime ụmụ asaá Orange na Sophie Stokes Hodrick mụrụ, bụ ndị na-ebi ndụ dị ka ndị ọrụ ugbo ogho na ahụekere. Ọ lụrụ Jim Toomer na 1908, wee soro ya kwaga n'ugbo dị nso na Dawson, Georgia.

Ime akwa 
Toomer malitere ịkpa ákwà mgbè ọ dị afọ iri na abụọ, n'okpuru nkuzi nne ya. A na-arụ ọrụ ahụ n'ihi mkpa, n'ime mmụọ nke akụ na ụba na iji ya eme ihe ọzọ, mana Toomer chọpụtakwara ngosipụta nka ogologo ógè na akwa. Ọ na-arụ ọrụ na akwa ya ihe fọrọ nke nta ka ọ bụrụ kwa ụbọchị, na-emecha ihe dị ka 20 kwa afọ, ma nwee usoro nhazi na ịkpụpụta iberibe n'ụtụtụ ma na-ekpuchi ha ọnụ n'abalị. Iji jikọta elu akwa, o jiri ihe ndị si n'ihe owuwu nke ya yana ákwà zụrụ n'ụba site na ụlọ ọrụ akwa dị nso.

Ihe Nketa 
Toomer's quiltmaking bịara n'uche mbà mgbè e gosipụtara ya na ndị ọzọ na-eme akwa, gụnyere Martha Jane Pettway na Sarah Mary Taylor, na ihe ngosi njem 1983 "Ten Afro-American Quiltmakers," nke Dr. Maude Southwell Wahlman haziri.

A na-edebe akwa ya n'ọtụtụ ihe ngosi nka, gụnyere Museum of International Folk Art na Santa Fe, New Mexico. Abụọ n'ime akwa ya dị na nchịkọta nké American Folk Art Museum na New York. Otu n'ime ndị a, Diamond Strip Quilt (zụrụ na 1990) bụ ihe mbụ nwetara màkà nchịkọta ihe ngosi nka.

Lucinda Toomer natara 1983 National Heritage Fellowship site na National Endowment for the Arts.

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