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The Secret Codes: African Nova Scotian Picture and Narrative Quilts

SECRET CODES REV

2011-15

Museum of Industry, Stellarton Jan 29-Feb 27, 2015
UNB Arts Centre, Fredericton, NB Jan 17-Feb 28, 2014                                                          St. FX Art Gallery, Antigonish Feb 12-Mar 8, 2013
Snider Gallery, NSCC Waterfront Campus, Dartmouth Jan 28-Feb 8, 2013
Chase Gallery, Public Archives of Nova Scotia May 22-Jun 4, 2011

Curated by David Woods

Quilts exploring African Nova Scotian experience featuring picture quilts designed by exhibition curator David Woods

Quilt Artists: 

    • Marilyn Brannan
    • Myla Borden
    • Edith Colley
    • Heather Cromwell
    • Bolivia Czernon
    • Frances Dorrington
    • Marlene Dorrington
    • Laurel Francis
    • Connie Glasgow-White
    • Debra Jordan
    • Kathy Lusk
    • Shirley MacKenzie
    • Helen Morrison
    • Annie Whelan
    • Black Loyalist Heritage Quilter

Video:

CBC

Papers

Epilogue History Quilting

Sewing Together Memories of Nova Scotia’s Black History

Novascotia.ca

African Nova Scotian Narrative

Presented by BANNS