Kids Storytime & Workshop: Gee's Bend Quilts

Stop by MW Gallery Saturday for a free family-friendly event! Learn about Gee’s Bend artists and the significance of creativity and quilt-making traditions shared between generations.

We will be reading the book “Stitchin’ and Pullin’ A Gee’s Bend Quilt“ with Make & Take activities afterwards where visitors can create their own strip quilt and beaded jewelry.

Free – no registration necessary. Activity materials provided. Ages 3+, Adult supervision required.

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About the book: “Stitching’ and Pullin’ A Gee’s Bend Quilt“ by Patricia McKissack (Author), Cozbi A. Cabrera (Illustrator) – Edition published by Dragonfly books.

A collection of poems that tell the story of the quilt-making community in Gee’s Bend, Alabama.

For generations, the women of Gee’s Bend have made quilts to keep their families warm, as a pastime accompanied by sharing and singing, or to memorialize loved ones. Today, the same quilts hang on museum walls as modern masterpieces of color and design. Inspired by these quilts and the women who made them, award-winning author Patricia C. McKissack traveled to Alabama to learn their stories. The lyrical rite-of-passage narrative that is the result of her journey seamlessly weaves together the familial, cultural, spiritual, and historical strands of life in this community.