Events
WHY ARE WE HERE?
Our purpose is to inspire understanding of the social, cultural, and artistic significance of African-American quilts. Our goal is to document, research, and preserve African-American quilt history through data collection and collaboration with local, state, and national societies, museums and universities.
African American Quilt Documentation Study Group
We are dedicated to conserving African-American quilting history by preserving and maintaining quilt documentation, showcasing the profiles of African-American quilt artists, and providing support for researchers. By documenting a quilt, you are documenting your family history for future generations.
2025 EVENTS
African American Quilt Documentation Training Seminar
Date: March 15–16, 2025
Location: Virtual (Don’t miss out—get on the contact list!)
Online Registration: https://aqsg.app.neoncrm.com/eventReg.jsp?event=508
Cost: Free! – AAQDSG is offering this training for free to African American quilters, guilds, and groups.
January 31 - February 1, 2025 AQSG Virual Winter Seminar
AAQDSG will present Documenting an African American Family’s Quilt Legacy.
February 5, 2025 Textile Talks with the Quilt Alliance
AAQDSG will discuss the significance of African American Quilt Guilds
March 15 - 16, 2025 Quilt Documentation Training - Virtual Seminar for African American Guilds
AAQDSG will collaborate with the college to host a quilt exhibit and conduct quilt documentations.
May 2025 Evergreen State College Cultural Preservation Week
AAQDSG will collaborate with the college to host a quilt exhibit and conduct quilt documentations.
June 7, 2025 - November 30, 2025 Berkeley Art Museum - Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) worked with AAQDSG on this exhibit. Join us at the opening. The exhibit traces the flow of quilts in the context of the Second Great Migration. These quilts explore the medium’s unique capacity for connecting kin across time and space, holding memory and ancestral knowledge, and opening up space for beauty and ingenuity.
January 2025 – June 2025 -QUILT DOCUMENTATION, African American Quilt Guild of Oakland (AAAQGO)
…ongoing
November 16, 2024 – April 13, 2025 – Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS.
Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South, on view November 16, 2024 – April 13, 2025. Over the past twenty years, MMA has amassed one of the largest quilt collections in the American South. This exhibition will feature over 50 handmade and machine-stitched quilts from MMA’s permanent collection, including Crossroads Quilters, Gwendolyn Magee, and several collected by American photographer Roland L. Freeman on his travels, recently acquired by MMA in 2022. See more at https://www.msmuseumart.org/exhibition/of-salt-spirit/
June 7 – November 30, 2025 – Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Berkeley, CA
Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California traces the flow and flourishing of quilts in the context of the Second Great Migration. These quilts explore the medium’s unique capacity for connecting kin across time and space, holding memory and ancestral knowledge, and opening up space for beauty and ingenuity. See more at https://bampfa.org/program/routed-west
2024 EVENTS
AAQDSG will be one of the speakers at this virtual event sponsored by the International Quilt Museum.
September 3 – 8, 2024 – AAQDSG will be at AQSG Seminar, Tarrytown, NY.
September 20 – 21, 2024 – Quilters Take a Moment (or QTM)
is a virtual educational series created to help you document, track, and organize your quilts. See more at https://qtm2024.org/
October 20 -21, 2024 – International Quilt Museum
February 28, 2024 – Quilt Alliance, QSOS – Textile Talks,
African American Quilt Guild of Oakland, Oakland, CA https://youtu.be/T1fxRb0QLTI?si=oQ3f80mU8JOVOxBv
January 31, 2024 – Quilt Alliance- QSOS - Textile Talks,
Fabrics of Faith Quilters, Tacoma, WA. https://youtu.be/2rdJZjItzlo?si=VY6Izqi8Q-3zDy83
July 2023 – June 2024 – AAQDSG
will be researching African American quilts for BAMPFA’s 2025 quilt exhibit.
July 10 – 14, 2024 – Fabrics of Faith Quilt Retreat at Frog Creek Lodge in Lakebay, WA
November 14 – 19, 2024 – AAQDSG will be in Las Vegas, NV.
July 25 – 28, 2024 – AAQDSG will be in Atlanta, GA.
2023 EVENTS
November 8 – 13, 2023 – AAQDSG will be in Las Vegas, NV.
AQDSG Seminar.
AAQDSG will have an exhibit and be conducting quilt documentations
September 4, 2023 – Buffalo Soldiers Museum.
