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"African American Quilts: Women Piecing Together Memories and Dreams" Exhibition

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This exhibition introduces approximately twenty quilts created by African-American women which portray their beauty based on the aesthetic sensitivities of their African roots. In contrast to the more restrained quilt designs made on the East Coast and Midwest of the United States, many African-American quilts from the South display dynamic improvisational designs and a different type of beauty.

Dynamic colors and rhythmical composition are profoundly expressed in these quilts — the gallery hopes that on your visit you will encounter the beauty engendered in the lives of these African-American women, and the fact that they turned their personal and collective dreams and memories into these quilts by piecing together old family clothes, and so on.

In 1975, Shiseido introduced American quilts for the first time to the Japanese audience by organizing the exhibition "American Piecing Quilts". Now, more than thirty years after that exhibition, it is proud to be able to again introduce the new world of American quilts.

Schedule

Aug 28 (Tue) 2007-Oct 14 (Sun) 2007