KC Public Library Quilt Lecture

Sheryl S sends a card announcing a lecture:

Quilts That Changed the World: Women, Movements, Healing and Art by Dr. Nancy Dawson which will be at the Plaza Branch Library at 4801 Main in Kansas City Missouri on November 7th, Monday evening. The lecture is at 6:30 preceeded by a recepiton at 6:00. Dr. Dawson makes quilts and is a professor of Africana Studies. Read more about her at Kyra Hick's Black Threads blog:

http://blackthreads.blogspot.com/2010/11/dr-nancy-j-dawson-organizes-tn-and-ky.html

Dr. Nancy Dawson

She will discuss the intersection of quilting, activism, and community-building using examples from the work of local textile artist NedRa Bonds (who we see at KVQG meetings often.)

NedRa Bonds

Co-Sponsored by the UMKC Women's & Gender Studies Program, UMKC Black Studies Program, the Bernardin-Haskell Fund, and the Kansas City Public Library.

Click here for more:
http://www.umkc.edu/womenc/40thanniversary/