Mary Margaret Pettway

Mary Margaret Pettway is a fourth-generation quilter who was born and raised in Gee’s Bend (Boykin), Alabama. She is the daughter of Lucy T. Pettway and a member of the Gee’s Bend Quilting Collective , founded in 2003 to promote and market quilts from the community of Gee’s Bend. She has taught quilting workshops throughout the Southeast and is a regular instructor at Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center in Camden, Alabama. In 2018 she was named an Alabama Humanities Fellow by the Alabama Humanities Foundation. She currently serves as the Board Chair for Souls Grown Deep Foundation.

From Anna Lucia and the Quilters of Gee’s Bend, May 2023