East Bay Times

Fiber is important: New Berkeley exhibit celebrates African-American quilts

African Americans carried many things with them when fleeing the South’s oppression and poverty in the middle of the 20th Century – a movement of millions called the Second Great Migration. Among the ...
East Bay Times

UC Berkeley art museum to exhibit 20th century African American quilts

Standing on opposite sides of a roughly 9-by-12-foot table in a work room at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Collection Specialist Laura Hansen wears gloves. Joining to ...
Yahoo

African American quilts honored in the Bay Area: ‘The tie that binds us to our ancestors'

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California" is on view at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ...
SFGate

Berkeley Art Museum Spotlights, Shares Legacies Of African American Women Quilters

More than 100 beautiful, fascinating quilts of widely varied styles made primarily by African American women with Bay Area ties, and many of the stories behind them, comprise a compelling new ...