{"id":35,"date":"2025-04-22T12:03:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T16:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reimaginingdisplay\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2025-05-07T18:29:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:29:21","slug":"she-knew-where-she-was-going-gees-bend-quilts-and-civil-rights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reimaginingdisplay\/?page_id=35","title":{"rendered":"She Knew Where She Was Going: Gee\u2019s Bend Quilts and Civil Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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In 2021, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, the Baltimore Museum of Art organized an exhibition centered around Gee\u2019s Bend quilts. The exhibition featured five quilts that had recently been acquired by the BMA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The BMA Violet Hour, a series of online programs, hosted a digital quilting bee where participants each learned to make a quilting block inspired by one of Loretta Pettway\u2019s quilts. The blocks were sent in and consolidated into a quilt that was raffled off to raise money for the organization Black Women Build Baltimore. BMA Stories<\/em> articles shared a timeline of the Freedom Quilting Bee, bringing attention to the injustices done to the Gee\u2019s Bend community by local and national authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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