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Community Day with Sisters in Stitches
Sunday
Sunday, April 8, 2018 - 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Art Museum Galleries
Join us for a community celebration of spring and quilts! Enjoy activities for all ages including mini-tours, storytelling, quilting and craft projects with Sisters in Stitches Joined by the Cloth—a Boston-area quilting guild—plus African drumming performances, refreshments and more!
Sunday, April 8, 2018 - 1:00pm to 4:00pm
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Community Day Schedule of Events (Sunday, April 8)
1:00 pm – Five College West African Music Ensemble with Michael Ofori, guest artist
1:10 pm – Tour of "Remember Us" with Relyn Myrthil '19
1:30 pm – Opening Ceremony & Storytelling with Sisters In Stitches
2:00 pm – Tour of Mary Lee Bendolph Exhibition
2:20 pm – Five College West African Music Ensemble
2:30 pm – Stories and Art
3:00 pm – Winner of Quilt Guessing Contest Announced
3:00 pm – Texture Tour
3:20 pm – Five College West African Music Ensemble
3:30 pm – Presentation of Unity Quilts and Renaissance School Quilt
3:45 pm – Unity Quilt Parade
Events And Links
January 23, 2018 to May 27, 2018
Piece Together
The Quilts of Mary Lee Bendolph
The central link in three generations of quiltmakers from Gee’s Bend, Alabama, Mary Lee Bendolph (b. 1935) is celebrated for her bold compositions and improvisational quilting style. She participated in the watershed traveling exhibitions The Quilts of Gee’s Bend (2002-2006) and The...
February 28, 2018 to April 15, 2018
Remember Us: Sewing Our Past and Present Together
Spotlight on Quilts
This exhibition features quilts by Sisters in Stitches Joined by the Cloth, a quilting guild with members from the greater Boston area, South Shore, Springfield, and Worcester. These artists depict stories of the African American...
