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The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, or BAMPFA, collaborated with local artists to showcase 20th-century African ...
WorldBeat Cultural Center's Juneteenth celebration features the unveiling of a community quilt and honors the artistry, history and deeper meaning behind African American quilting traditions.
While there are several Juneteenth events taking place all across Columbus, one venue stands out from the rest — the historic ...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive was about to launch an exhibition of historic quilts, when federal funding ...
Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California June 8 to Nov. 30. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, Calif.; 510-642-0808, bampfa.org .
Story by The Oaklandside ... The African American Quilt Collection at BAMPFA holds more than 500 quilts by Tompkins, including rarely seen works that will go on view in Routed West.
This is not just a celebration of how far we've come in 160 years, but also showing that there's still a lot of work that ...
WWII-era, they could make the difference between sleeping or freezing for the Black families who moved out of the South ...
Edith Edmunds, who is 99 years old, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's ...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) is home to one of the world's largest collections of African-American quilts — some 3,000 of them. Bequeathed to the museum in 2019 by ...