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| Tacoma Art Museum hosts 'Threads that Bind' festival to honor Black History Month | |
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Tacoma Art Museum marks Black History Month with a free community festival on Sunday, February 3, in conjunction with the exhibition "Threads that Bind: Works by Pacific Northwest African American Quilters." The Threads that Bind Community Festival is from noon to 5 p.m. at Tacoma Art Museum and offers free admission to all visitors. Threads that Bind is on view at Tacoma Art Museum through February 17, 2008. The exhibition includes one quilt by each member of PNWAAQ, as well as quilts made collaboratively by the group. Members of the quilting circle come to the Northwest from all over the country, use different materials, and often take radically different approaches to quiltmaking. For this group, the act of quilting and the quilts themselves bind the group together and create community. Spoken word, gospel music, and dance performances, as well a scavenger hunt and a community quilt, will be among the many special festival activities on February 3. Performance groups include DASH (Dancing, Acting, and Singing in Harmony) Center for the Arts from Tacoma's Hilltop neighborhood; Adult Music Ministry of St. John International Church in Tacoma; 2012, a hip-hop crew that works with local youth to encourage them to fulfill their dreams; and Free Ya Mind! spoken-word performers. Women of the PNWAAQ will piece together squares for the community quilt throughout the day and will talk with visitors in the galleries about their work in Threads that Bind. Local artist Ellen Ito will help visitors create paper quilt squares in the Open Art Studio. Storytelling by Links Youth, the student group of The Links, Incorporated, Tacoma Chapter, will take place in the Art Resource Center. For a schedule of events, visit www.tacomaartmuseum.org. Free Seasonal Community Festivals are made possible in part by the Dan and Pat Nelson Family Foundation and The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation. Additional Support for Threads that Bind Community is generously provided by The Links, Incorporated, Tacoma Chapter. A Tacoma Art Museum press release |
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