Rosie Lee Tompkins is the art pseudonym of Effie Mae Martin Howard, a widely-acclaimed African-American quiltmaker and fiber artist of Richmond, California. The New York Times called her “one of the great American artists,” and her work “one of the century’s major artistic accomplishments.” More than 500 works by Tompkins reside at the Berkeley Art Museum. Early life Born Effie Mae Martin, she was born September 6, 1936 to a sharecropping family in southeastern Arkansas. Work Tompkins, … Continue reading Profile: Rosie Lee Tompkins (1936-2006)