Wild’n Outing: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California

We’re going on a Wild’n Outing! 

Meet us at BAMPFA for an Exhibition Tour of the exhibit, Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California. As the weather cools, we’re gathering a group of wild womxn who want to add a little quilt  culture to the calendar.  

This exhibit traces the flow and flourishing of quilts in the context of the Second Great Migration through approximately one hundred quilts representing the work of eighty individuals, many of them women. 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. The quilts in this exhibition explore the medium’s unique capacity for connecting kin across time and distance, holding memory and ancestral knowledge, and opening up space for beauty and artistic ingenuity.

Tickets: $20

Purchasing your ticket will save your spot in our coordinated group.