Paying Homage: Celebrating the Diversity of Men in Quilts
Exhibition Overview
Paying Homage focuses on contemporary quilts by men with a theme of paying homage to ancestors or influential individuals. Presented in the context of Faith Ringgold’s groundbreaking Flag Story Quilt (1985), the exhibition displays local and national loans alongside objects in various mediums from the Spencer Museum’s permanent collection.
The exhibition acknowledges that contemporary male quilt artists take their inspiration in part from mothers, sisters, and grandmothers, as well as from the African American women quilters who pioneered modern story-quilting as a way to link generations, pass down unwritten histories, and tell difficult stories.
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