Family Art Project: Freedom Quilters of Gee Bend

Sat Jan 18, 2020 - Sun Jan 19, 2020
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Repeating every days through January 19, 2020.
10:00am to 1:00pm ET
Age: 4 and up
Price: Free with park admission
Location:
Wave Hill
718-549-3200
West 249th Street and Independence Avenue, Bronx, NY,
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In 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. visited the Gee’s Bend Community in rural Alabama and the Freedom Quilting Bee was established. The bold patterns and bright colors of these now famous quilts, made from fabric scraps, would later go on to fund aspects of the communities’ freedom.

Create your own brilliant compositions out of bountiful squares of donated fabric to honor Dr. King’s Birthday and the inspiring women quilters of Gee’s Bend.

Admission is free until noon on Saturday.

** Activity dates/times are subject to change. Please click through to the activity website to verify.