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A vibrant, hand-quilted cotton textile features a combination of blue, orange, yellow, and red patchwork.

National Museum of Women in the Arts · Downtown

Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California

Upcoming18 September 2026 – 17 January 2027·$16

Over 80 quilts trace the Second Great Migration west, carried as warmth, ancestral memory and emblems of cultural survival by Black families settling in California.

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