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From Boardroom to Quilted Legacy | Kansas City News
Kim Newton, once a corporate titan who managed a billion-dollar Hallmark operation, quietly built a powerful art career from her childhood quilting lessons with her grandmother. Now fifty-four, she’s showcasing her emotionally rich, fabric-based portraits in “Sacred Seams,” an exhibition that honors Black women’s stories through vibrant Indonesian batiks and ancestral heirlooms. Her quilts—gifted to Oprah, commissioned by Michelle Obama—speak volumes before their titles, weaving memory, identity, and legacy into every seam. Newton sees herself as emerging, yet deeply rooted, turning family…
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