upcoming exhibition

Gee’s Bend

The Architecture of the Quilt

Opens April 13, 2008

For generations, African American women in an isolated farming community at a bend in the Alabama River made quilts from old work clothes, recycled fabrics, or scraps used by the Freedom Quilting Bee cooperative. Boldly combining color, form, and texture in unexpected ways, these quiltmakers integrated everyday materials like corduroy and denim to create utilitarian quilts that are now heralded as significant contemporary artworks.

Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt tells the moving human stories behind these quilts—stories about the intertwined roles of community and family, environmental inspirations, and the artistic process.

This exhibition is included with general admission to the museum.