Quilting Our Collective Histories
Showing now in 4833’s Flex Space is an exhibition of quilts made by gifted 6th and 7th graders of the Hendricks Community Academy. These students created beautiful quilts documenting the important lived experiences that took place within their lives and the lives of their family members. Be sure to come by to check out these quilts and learn about the stories of the young artists who made them!
A Sampling of our Quilter’s Talents
Hendricks Community Academy is located on the South Side of Chicago on the corner of 43rd St and Princeton Ave. This year in the art lab, students participated in a project entitled Quilting Our Collective Histories.
Quilt making in America has traditionally been an activity through which women have documented familial histories. Furthermore, before and throughout the Civil Rights movement, women in the African American community made quilts that have documented the struggles and successes experienced by community members on the road to freedom and the achievement of civil rights.
During the course of this project students had the opportunity to discover and discuss pivotal moments within their histories. Pivotal moments such as a family’s move from the American South to the American North in search of better opportunity in terms of work and standard of living, the birth of children, marriages within families and other crucial moments that have changed their lives.
A 6th and 7th grade masterpiece!
Comments [2]
May. 4.2008
By Tommiezene Miller
I think the quilts are beautiful. Many of my students participated in the wonderful project,even though they are in a Special Education class, they did an awwesome job and I am extremely proud of them.
May. 6.2008
By Ray
The quilts did come out amazing. Thank you for making your students part of the project, and we hope they enjoyed doing it as much as we did displaying them here at the Art Center!