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Aolar Carson Mosely (May 12, 1912 – October 29, 1999) was an American artist. She was a founding member of the Freedom Quilting Bee, and is associated with the Gee's Bend quiltmakers, along with her daughter Mary Lee Bendolph and her granddaughter Essie Bendolph Pettway. Piece Together: The Quilts of Mary Lee Bendolph. Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and List Gallery, Swarthmore College. Almost all of her quilts were destroyed when her house burned down in 1984.
She married Wisdom Mosely in 1929. Together they had seventeen children, only thirteen of whom survived childhood. In 1932, they lost everything to a raid of their property by agents of the Camden merchant's estate. However, in 1935, her family benefited from New Deal program called the Resettlement Administration, followed by the Farm Security Administration. With assistance from the Resettlement Administration, she and her family bought a house and 116 acres of arable land in Gee's Bend.
She developed dementia later in life. After her house caught fire in 1984, which destroyed all of her remaining quilts, she spent her remaining years living with her daughter, Mary Lee Bendolph.
She worked for the bee until 1981 and then spent most of her time there volunteering. However, her earnings from the quilting bee allowed her to, over time, purchase a washing machine, indoor plumbing, and a freezer.
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