Through November 30th: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California

BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE
2155 Center Street Berkeley, CA
on view till November 30, 2025

Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California traces the flow and flourishing of quilts in the context of the Second Great Migration. As millions of African Americans sought greater opportunities and escape from the South’s oppressive racial environment from 1940 to 1970, they carried quilts as functional objects and physical reminders of the homes they left behind. Simultaneously, the quiltmaking skills that many migrants brought with them spurred the creation of a new wave of African American quiltmaking extending its roots into the Western United States.
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