Chawne Kimber is a textile artist who mainly stitches quilts and embroidery that are shown in museums, galleries, and festivals all over the world. Through cultivation of cotton in rural Alabama, some of her ancestors (unwillingly) participated in building the United States. Inspired by quilts made by these ancestors in the late 1800s, Chawne interprets traditional patchwork forms in an improvisational style and indulges in community and social dialogue in quilt form. When not manipulating cotton, Chawne is a professor of mathematics and a chief academic officer at a small liberal arts college in the Mid-Atlantic region.