wilfred<p>Excited to see this show!</p><p>“Starting June 8, Bay Area audiences will have the opportunity to encounter a sweeping cross-section of this collection in Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California — the first time in the collection’s history that it has been the subject of a museum survey at this scale….</p><p>To oversee this process, BAMPFA hired Dr. Elaine Yau, an art historian working at the intersection of folk and modern art.…</p><p>As the curator of Routed West, Yau chose to focus the first museum survey of the collection on the topic of migration — a theme that is deeply woven into the story of these quilts. Yau’s initial research revealed that many of the quiltmakers in the collection had arrived on the West Coast during the Second Great Migration, roughly 1940 to 1970, when millions of African Americans emigrated from the southern United States.”</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/quilts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quilts</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/quiltmakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quiltmakers</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/bampfa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bampfa</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ca" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ca</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/westcoast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>westcoast</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/show" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>show</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>design</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/migration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>migration</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/quiltmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quiltmaking</span></a><br><a href="https://oaklandside.org/2025/06/05/major-show-of-african-american-quilts-opening-at-bampfa-despite-federal-funding-cuts/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">oaklandside.org/2025/06/05/maj</span><span class="invisible">or-show-of-african-american-quilts-opening-at-bampfa-despite-federal-funding-cuts/</span></a></p>