Weaving Threads of Joy: Exploring Black and Chilean Quilting Traditions
- Event Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- Time: 10:00 am (CDT)
- Location: Douglas Annex Senior Center, 804 N 5th St, Champaign IL, 61820
The Black Joy project and the Latin American Cities Collective, hosted at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, invite you to join this quilting workshop where African American and Chilean women will share their quilting traditions of liberation, love, and justice. Participants will have the opportunity to learn and create their own quilting pieces.
Participants will not need prior skills to create a quilt.
Some of the pieces we create in this workshop may be part of the Black Joy exhibition at the Spurlock Museum in Urbana.
Food will be provided.
Contact
For further information, please call 737-336-0667 (phone link) or email dm38@illinois.edu (email link).
To request disability-related accommodations for this event, please contact Brian Cudiamat at cudiamat@illinois.edu (email link) or (217) 244-5586.