African American Quilt Research Paper

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For my intercultural communications field experience paper, I decided to go to a quilt exhibit. An African American Quilt exhibit from the Cargo Collection, the Cargo collection is just a collection bought by Dr. Robert Cargo. Robert Cargo, is a owner of the Folk Art Gallery in Tuscaloosa Alabama. The Cargo collection of African Americans is 156 quilts made by African Americans women from Alabama. More than 32 different quilts made by very different ladies, make up this collection here in Lincoln. On November 20, I went down to the International Quilt Study Center & Museum. The Museum is amazing, I mean I’m really not one into museums but this was so cool! The museum works with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, but is the worlds largest publicly owned quilt collection. It is dedicated to the conservation and study of the quilt-making tradition. In the museum many different activities and events happen, it is known for: the Department of textiles, merchandising and Fashion design department for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, it encourages interdisciplinary study of all aspects of quilt-making traditions, the tradition is maintained by; Collection, conservation, and exhibition of quilts and related …show more content…
Learning about the African American culture and what quilting means to them, is something cool. It’s kind of a shame that quilting isn’t big anymore. I honestly thing learning how to quilt would be something so cool to do! Not only would you be able to say “hey I made that,” but it would be something valuable too. It’s cool how somebody is so into the history of African Americans and the history of quilting that they make a museum out of it, to show people how amazing different cultures really are, to learn about what their values were, and what they did during World War I also, to raise money and to support the