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Donnell, Radka, Quilts as Women's Art: A Quilt Poetics, (Gallerie Publications, North Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 1990).
James, Michael, American Craft, “Beyond Tradition: The Art of the Studio Quilt”, February/March 1985.
James, Michael. "Radka Donnell: The Work of Touch", http://cehs15.unl.edu/cms/index-arc.php?s=9&p=72&y=2003
Kopas, Janet and Metcalf, Bruce, Makers: A History of American Studio Craft, (The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2010), 349.
Sider, Sander, Pioneering Quilt Artists, 1960-1980: A New Direction in American Art, (Self Published, 2010).
Vogt, Adolf Max, Le Corbusier, the Noble Savage, (The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachutts, 1998).

[5] Koplos, Janet and Metcalf, Bruce. Makers: A History of American Studio Craft.

[9] Sider, Sandra. Pioneering Quilt Artist, 1960-1980, A New Direction in American Art, 2010. She lectured, taught history, theory and techniques of quilting and was a prolific artist. Radka was able to bridge the gap from craft to high art, dissolve gender issues and humanize the female experience. She wrote and lectured on the special aspect of female silence or isolation and the significant ramifications for all art historically produced by women. [9]

[15] http://www.lyrikwelt.de/autoren/donnell.htm (Donnell, Radka – Vita, translated)

[17] http://www.folkstreams.net/context,36 Transcript of Quilts in Women’s Lives “For me quilts carry a lot of emotion. I guess I was working through all sorts of prohibitions to touch. Touch is important to women because there is a lot of physical caring that they have to do and this makes them extremely sensitive….Touchy you might say. That said, and this is why objects that involve the sense of touch have a special meaning emotionally. Quilts have had a meaning for me on many levels. Making quilts helped me to get a sense for my own space. A sense of finding my way. A sense of really working my way out of a labyrinth. Quilts were a home for me as a first generation American so I found the medium that for me meant home.”[17]

[18] http://mendofleur.com/2009/04/26/radka-donnell-the-work-of-touch/ Michael James, Department Chair and Ardis James Professor of Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and longtime friend and colleague to Radka Donnell, describes Radka’s quilts: “They become embodiments of the struggle across time and generations, across gender, across race and ethnicity, to map out a pathway for the self that is compassionate, loving, inclusive, and deeply human.” [18]

[19] Donnell, Radka. Quilts as Women’s Art: A Quilt Poetics, 1990. “It might well take quilts to drive, (home to art), the saving grace of women’s work, it might well take the oral quilt tradition to animate our trust in each other, to get around the synthetic prose of science. It just might be our mission and our pride to add just one more act of women’s work of humanization of practicing women’s art for social change.” Radka Donnell. [19]