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Juneteenth is a federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. Here's how to celebrate in Phoenix, Tempe, ...
To commemorate the history and celebrate the federal holiday, several events are happening across the Valley in honor of ...
From art quilts that tell a story inside the Camas library’s Second Story Gallery to an artist-led fundraiser for the Cascade AIDS Project and ...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, or BAMPFA, collaborated with local artists to showcase 20th-century African ...
Her efforts included doing extensive genealogical research and trying varied outreach methods, even cold calling the quiltmakers' relatives.
WWII-era, they could make the difference between sleeping or freezing for the Black families who moved out of the South ...
The federal government revoked $460,000 in federal funding to a Berkeley, Calif., museum housing historic African-American ...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive was about to launch an exhibition of historic quilts, when federal funding ...
On June 8, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will open its own expanded version of Brackens’s trunk in “Routed West: Twentieth Century African American Quilts in California.” ...
Importantly, this year’s exhibit expands the art form’s visibility and geographic ... including members of the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland. Yau says in an interview that while ...
For the people in the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland, that skill reconciles years of history and encourages the bridge between function and artistry. "With African American quilts ...
You’re telling untold stories. Rackard: Yes. And that brings in the preserving of the art, this history, the culture, the tradition of African American quilt making. Quilt making is not just for the ...