Patterns: Traditional West African Textiles and the Art of Gee's Bend Quilts October 12, 2006

This display of textile art combines work from the west coast of the African continent with quilts by a creative community of women in Gee's Bend, Alabama. The juxtaposition of these pieces, from contrasting origins, presents visitors with the opportunity to contemplate, reflect and question their parallels and similarities. Despite differences in time, history, geography and culture, stylistic similarities are so strong and so common that they suggest cultural continuity and related sensibilities that simply could not occur by chance.