Our 2023 Symposium will highlight collectives-small groups creating big changes through the everyday act of making. Brown’s research and insights, the Project Threadways team knew that we had found our next theme. Her talk drew on narratives from quilting cooperatives to show how Black political thought was crucial to the development of Black textile traditions, and how in Alabama and Mississippi, women used collective making in pursuit of autonomy.Īfter hearing Dr. Among the presenters was Aleia Brown, an interdisciplinary scholar who studies ways that Black women-through collective making-have experimented with different models of freedom. Last spring, a group gathered in Florence for the 2022 Project Threadways Symposium to explore textiles and activism. ORIGINS AND VOICE OF THE 2023 PROJECT THREADWAYS SYMPOSIUM In-person and virtual tickets are available- purchase yours here. The 2023 Project Threadways Symposium will be held April 20-22 in Florence, Alabama. Above: from The Quilts of Gee’s Bend by William Arnett, Alivia Wardlaw, Jane Livingston, and John Beardsley quilts by Loretta Pettway.
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