Renowned artist Nasaria Suckoo Chollette, backed by CNCF, crafts a quilt intertwining traditional arts like thatch, crochet, rag-rug, embroidery, and quilting. The quilt narrates Cayman’s home birthing rituals, highlighting women’s roles and resilience. Collaborating with various artists, Nasaria aims to honor Cayman’s women, portraying lesser-known historical facets and showcasing diverse talents while interpreting cultural heritage research into new artistic works. This project aims to explore womanhood’s past, their resilience, and resourcefulness in daily life.

Nasaria is working with an embroidery artist, a crochet artist, a thatch practitioner, a quilter, a yo-yo quilt maker, a rag-rug artist, and traditional quilter to put the works together, creating a platform for other artists to showcase their talents. This project will serve the purpose of giving tangible examples of how the information garnished from cultural heritage research can be interpreted into new works; works that require the artist to re-interpret the information gathered through research. She regards this type of research as one of the keystones of her life’s work.