We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists Open House

Join curators and artists to celebrate We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists, an exhibition featuring recently acquired quilts from Carolyn Mazloomi, founder of the Women of Color Quilters Network (WCQN). Artists Sylvia Hernandez, Beverly Smith, Chawne Kimber, Peggie Hartwell, and Helen Murrell, members of the WCQN, talk with the public about their works, which are on view in the exhibition. Guest curator, Aleia Brown, the David Julian and Virginia Suther Whichard Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at East Carolina University, and Mary Savig, acting curator-in-charge of the Renwick Gallery at SAAM, will share additional insights with the public about the curatorial process behind the exhibition.

Registration will open approximately one month before the date of the program.

Free | Registration encouraged

Image credit: Detail of Myrah Brown Green, In My Akuabaa Form, 2000, cotton fabric and cotton batt, 95 × 86 in. (241.3 × 218.4 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Fleur S. Bresler, 2023.40.19, © 2000, Myrah Brown Green.