At BAMPFA: Rosie Lee Tompkins
Julia Bryan-Wilson, 17 December 2020
Rosie Lee Tompkins, born Effie Mae Martin in Gould, Arkansas in 1936, grew up picking cotton alongside her fourteen siblings and half-siblings. As was common for a child of rural sharecroppers, her formal schooling was limited, but Tompkins learned to sew by making bedcoverings with her mother, scrapping together any available pieces of cloth. At the age of 22, she joined millions of...