For fiber artist Aaron McIntosh, quilting is an act of defiant documentation. Growing
up in an Appalachian family with a generations-deep tradition of quilting, he learned
the craft as a boy and went on to develop his own ethos and mission.
In this episode of the Art Restart podcast, McIntosh describes why and how he claimed the South’s most notorious weed as his
artistic inspiration and clears up any misconceptions about the fiber arts ever having
taken a back seat to other fine arts throughout human history. The Art Restart podcast
is hosted by Pier Carlo Talenti and is produced by the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts.