LABOR ART OF THE WEEK: Alice Eugenia Ligon
Lawrence Smoot | Published on 9/15/2024
Embroidered Garment, Alice Eugenia Ligon, on view now in the Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women exhibit at the Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC.
Ligon worked as a telephone operator and hospital attendant in Boone County, Missouri, raising at least five children. Admitted to a state hospital at least twice, she made this gown during her first stay, so that her children could remember her while she was away.
