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 rican-american-quilts-in-california-dc@quiltmap.com
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270118
SUMMARY:Quilt Museum Exhibition titled "Routed West: Twentieth-Century Af
 rican American Quilts in California"
DESCRIPTION:Quilt Museum Exhibition at National Museum of Women in the Ar
 ts in Washington\, D.C. titled "Routed West: Twentieth-Century African Am
 erican Quilts in California"\n\nOn view: Sep 18\, 2026\, to Jan 17\, 2027
 \n\nRouted West traces the flow and flourishing of quilts in the context 
 of the Second Great Migration\, a mass movement of approximately five mil
 lion African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North and We
 st between 1940 and 1970 in search of a more equitable life. Many of the 
 hundreds of thousands of migrants who arrived in California carried quilt
 s for warmth and protection\, as containers for ancestral memory\, and as
  emblems of cultural survival.\n\nOrganized across several themes through
  more than 80 artworks with kaleidoscopic patterns\, colors\, and forms\,
  Routed West offers a history of art through quilts’ joyful power in Blac
 k life.\n\nThe quilts in the exhibition highlight artistic approaches suc
 h as repurposing work clothes\, improvisational piecing\, pattern-based q
 uilting\, and tying\, practiced by those who would carry these works out 
 of the South. Quilts by migrants from Arkansas\, Louisiana\, Mississippi\
 , Oklahoma\, and Texas\, regions heavily represented in the westward move
 ment of African Americans\, reflect the ways in which these works become 
 cherished heirlooms.\n\nAs teachers\, nurses\, seamstresses\, truck drive
 rs\, grocery store managers\, shipyard workers\, and other members of a l
 aboring class\, a number of artists used quilt-making to reclaim time for
  themselves\, pursuing creative labor that could be meditative\, centerin
 g\, and liberating. Many of the quilts showcase the work of multiple gene
 rations of quiltmakers within families\, while works by contemporary arti
 sts illustrate the ways they keep traditions of African American quilting
  alive today.\n\nNOTE: Quilt Guilds are invited to contact the museum for
  special offers. Events related to the exhibition take place throughout F
 all-Winter 2026-2027.
LOCATION:Quilt Museum Exhibition titled "Routed West: Twentieth-Century A
 frican American Quilts in California"\, Washington\, D.C.
URL:https://quiltmap.com/event/quilt-museum-exhibition-titled-routed-west
 -twentieth-century-african-american-quilts-in-california-dc/
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