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DESCRIPTION:Members of the famed Gee's Bend Quilters Collective from Gee's Bend, 
 Alabama, will give a lecture Saturday, March 4, at 7 pm at the Oakland 
 Marriott, accompanied by an exhibition of 30 quilts March 3-25 at the Joyce 
 Gordon Gallery in Oakland. The events are organized by the Oakland-based 
 Martin Luther King Jr Freedom Center in partnership with Peralta Community 
 College District and Joyce Gordon Gallery. Quilters featured will be Ms. 
 Mary Ann Pettway, Executive Director of the Gee's Bend Quilters Collective, 
 and Ms. China Pettway and Ms. Julia Pettway. In addition to the lecture and 
 exhibition, the Pettways will give in-school presentations at area high 
 schools discussing the history of quilting and the central role culture 
 plays in preserving and protecting democracy. Admission to the lecture, 
 presented as part of the popular Barbara Lee and Elihu Harris Lecture 
 Series, is free with registration by calling the Freedom Center at (510) 
 434-3988. \n\nJoyce Gordon Gallery is located at 406 14th Street in 
 downtown Oakland, and is open to the public Wednesday through Friday 11 
 am-6 pm and Saturday 1-4 pm. \n\nThe quilters of Gee's Bend, a small town 
 in rural Alabama, are internationally known as culture-bearers of a 
 tradition that dates back to slavery and before. Their quilts-works of 
 supreme and sublime craftsmanship, design, utility and art-are artifacts 
 that stand witness to generations of challenge and triumph. Because of the 
 quilters' organizing and work, the stories of Black history and the power 
 of collective and intergenerational collaboration have spread far beyond 
 the town limits of Gee's Bend. The legacy of the quilters of Gee's Bend has 
 a rightful place at the center of the rich traditions of African American 
 visual art, literature, music, dance and craft that indelibly define and 
 celebrate American culture.\n\nFree\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/02/09/18854237.php
SUMMARY:Gee's Bend Quilters on Barbara Lee and Elihu Harris Lecture Series
LOCATION:Oakland Marriott Hotel\n1001 Broadway\nOakland, CA 94607
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/02/09/18854237.php
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