|
printable version
- js reader version
- view hidden posts
- tags and related articles
by deedee
Friday, Jul. 20, 2001 at 12:15 PM
dhalleck@weber.ucsd.edu
Local Artist, C'Love, Has Passed Away
There will be a service for her at the Women's Center on the UCSD campus from 2 until 5 on July 22.
A truly amazing human being, Caroline Love, known to many as C'Love, died last week. She was found by her health care worker, having passed away in her sleep. C'Love had been quite ill for many years, suffering from diabetes, from heart failure and from kidney failure. She was on dialysis for over four years, and this year suffered her second heart
attack.
C'Love was African American and part Cherokee. If there was a PowWow within two hundred miles of her, she would attend it. She received her Masters in Fine Arts from the Visual Arts Department at UCSD. For many years she served as Chair of the Women's Caucus on the Arts in the San Diego region. She had studied with Faith Ringgold and continued that
tradition of narrative quilts which has so distinguised the work of Ringgold.
C'Love's work always addressed social justice issues: she made a large quilt on the occasion of the Rodney King beating and one on the violence against women in Bosnia. She made several on health issues. She presented a book project at the College Art Association about the difficulties of being a single mother.
When she died she was working on a series of large quilt tapestries on women in jazz, inspired by a visit to the Schomberg Collection in New York and by a recent publication by Angela Davis, which looks at the lyrics of blues as a literary form. She chose five women blues singers and stitched their images and stories on fabric. This last work was perhaps the strongest she ever made: bold defiant brown faces, surrounded by hand written lyrics and music. C'Love worked on these quilts from her hospital bed, from her rehab center and from her seat on one of the many health transport vehicles which she rode back and forth to hospital and doctor's office as she suffered the many health set-backs that filled her final years.
C'Love was extraordinarily generous: always bringing food and presents to friends and colleagues, remembering birthdays when no one else did. She had a tenacious memory and would ask you about problems and situations from your last meeting with her that you would have to struggle to recall yourself.
She loved to tell jokes and would remember in minute detail all the nuances of the particular joke. It was always
fun to share a joke with C'Love, as it gave you the chance to hear her warm and raucous laughter.
C'Love was a good artist: she had a rare clarity of vision and determination. Her work did not fester nor fade, but each year kept getting stronger and more visionary, despite her desperate health situation.
Behind her talent however was her unique spirit: she glowed with a warmth and an optimism that was truly spiritual. It is this spirit that we will remember: all of us who came in contact with her: the bus drivers, the nurses, the doctors, the Taco Shop clerk, the colleagues, the students. This woman was a testimony to the power of humanity to transcend suffering and despair. The deep faith which sustained this
spirit was centered in ART.
For C'Love life WAS art.
There will be a service for her at the Women's Center on the UCSD campus from 2 until 5 on July 22.
Report this post as:
|
Local News
GUIDE TO REBEL CITY LOS ANGELES AVAILABLE
A12 5:39PM
lausd whistle blower
A10 11:58PM
Website Upgrade
A10 3:02AM
Help KCET and UCLA identify 60s-70s Chicano images
A04 1:02PM
UCLA Luskin: Casting Youth Justice in a Different Light
A02 11:58AM
Change Links April 2018
A01 11:27AM
Nuclear Shutdown News March 2018
M31 6:57PM
Join The Protest Rally in Glendale on April 10, 2018!
M29 7:00PM
Join The Protest Rally in Glendale on April 10, 2018!
M29 6:38PM
Spring 2018 National Immigrant Solidarity Network News Alert!
M19 2:02PM
Anti-Eviction Mapping Project Shows Shocking Eviction Trends in L.A.
M16 5:40PM
Steve Mnuchin video at UCLA released
M15 12:34AM
Actress and Philanthropist Tanna Frederick Hosts Project Save Our Surf Beach Clean Ups
M06 12:10PM
After Being Told He's 'Full of Sh*t' at School Event, Mnuchin Demands UCLA Suppress Video
M02 11:44AM
Resolution of the Rent Strike in Boyle Heights
M01 6:28PM
What Big Brother Knows About You and What You Can Do About It
M01 3:30PM
Step Up As LAPD Chief Charlie Beck Steps Down
F14 2:44PM
Our House Grief Support Center Hosts 9th Annual Run For Hope, April 29
F13 12:51PM
Don’t let this LA County Probation Department overhaul proposal sit on the shelf
F13 11:04AM
Echo Park Residents Sue LA Over Controversial Development
F12 8:51AM
Former Signal Hill police officer pleads guilty in road-rage incident in Irvine
F09 10:25PM
Calif. Police Accused of 'Collusion' With Neo-Nazis After Release of Court Documents
F09 7:14PM
Center for the Study of Political Graphics exhibit on Police Abuse posters
F07 9:50AM
City Agrees to Settle Lawsuit Claiming Pasadena Police Officer Had His Sister Falsely Arre
F04 3:17PM
Professor's Study Highlights Health Risks of Urban Oil Drilling
F04 12:42PM
Claims paid involving Pasadena Police Department 2014 to present
F04 10:52AM
Pasadenans - get your license plate reader records from police
F03 11:11PM
LA Times Homicide Report
F03 1:57PM
More Local News...
Other/Breaking News
Architect Stephen Francis Jones
A24 3:01PM
UN Forum Wrestles with Economic Policies 10 Years After Financial Crisis Islands Call for
A24 12:34PM
Xyloglossie attitudinale
A23 8:07AM
Shadowgun Legends Hack and Cheats
A23 7:24AM
What does the Quran Say About Islamic Dress??
A21 4:15PM
Biodiversité ou la nature privatisée
A20 11:22AM
The Market is a Universal Totalitarian Religion
A20 7:14AM
Book Available about Hispanics and US Civil War by National Park Service
A19 5:52PM
The Shortwave Report 04/20/18 Listen Globally!
A19 4:01PM
The Republican 'Prolife' Party Is the Party of War, Execution, and Bear Cub Murder
A19 11:48AM
Neurogenèse involutive
A18 9:21AM
Paraphysique de la dictature étatique
A16 10:13AM
Book Review: "The New Bonapartists"
A16 3:45AM
The West Must Take the First Steps to Russia
A14 12:25PM
Théorie générale de la révolution ou hommage à feu Mikhaïl Bakounine
A14 3:30AM
The Shortwave Report 04/13/18 Listen Globally!
A12 3:50PM
“Lost in a Dream” Singing Competition Winner to Be Chosen on April 15 for ,000 Prize!
A12 3:48PM
The World Dependent on Central Banks
A12 4:43AM
Ohio Governor Race: Dennis Kucinich & Richard Cordray Run Against Mike DeWine
A11 9:40PM
March 2018 Honduras Coup Again Update
A10 10:52PM
Apologie du zadisme insurrectionnel
A10 3:33PM
ICE contract with license plate reader company
A10 1:14PM
Palimpseste sisyphéen
A09 11:23PM
Black Portraiture(S) IV: The Color of Silence...Cuba No...Cambridge Yes
A09 5:32AM
Prohibiting Micro-Second Betting on the Exchanges
A09 4:18AM
Prosecutors treat Muslims harsher than non-Muslims for the same crimes
A08 10:33PM
Amy Goodman interview on cell phone safety
A08 10:29PM
Mesa, Arizona police officer kills unarmed white man
A08 9:50PM
More Breaking News...
|