Tradition Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft and Traditional Art    
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Irene Cheek
Barbourville, KY
Quilter
Traditional Artist

About the Artist
A master quilter, Irene Cheek has been using her talents to assist others throughout rural Kentucky as the director of the Emergency Fund and Service, Inc., an organization that teaches quilting and provides financial aid. Quilts that are produced as part of the program are auctioned off to replenish the community fund.
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What is mastery to Cheek?
“It would be someone who has worked at it for years. You get so many years of experience and you can pretty well do what you want to, but you never get to where you quit learning. No matter how much you think you know, you can always learn more, always make it better.”

 

 
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