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ART & AGENCY: Exploring the African American Quilting Tradition
June 18, 2022 @ 2:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Free
Explore the transfer and evolution of quilting techniques and traditions that may have occurred during the trans-Atlantic slave experience and how, even today, the social, political and economic agency of Black people is defined and actualized through quilts and quilt making. This international conversation includes scholars, journalists, quilt artists, and art activists from the United States, Liberia and Ghana.
Companion quilt exhibitions are being hosted by collaborating institutions including, Navy Pier June10-July 31 and The DuSable Museum of African American History June 17-19. Visit: www.AIHUSA.org for more information.
ZOOM LINK INVITATION FOR VIRTUAL PARTICIPATION
You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Jun 18, 2022 02:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
Topic: ART & AGENCY: Exploring the African American Quilting Tradition
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WNogaLuHilQSyYCGMWosUskg