Quilt museum to host Black History Month exhibition

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Quilt museum to host Black History Month exhibition

"Get Woke" by Black mathematician and quilt artist Chawne Kimber
"Get Woke" by Black mathematician and quilt artist Chawne Kimber

The International Quilt Museum is collaborating with the Lincoln NAACP Youth Council to host a pop-up exhibition Feb. 25-26 in observance of Black History Month.

The exhibition, “Black Excellence: The Struggle Doesn’t Define Us,” will be in in the museum’s Byron and Sara Rhodes Dillow Conservation Workroom. It will feature student art from area youth and a showing of Michael Cummings’ “Slave Ship Henrietta Marie.” The exhibition will include a showing of “Get Woke,” a recent addition to the museum’s collection, by Chawne Kimber, a Black mathematician and quilt artist.

The event will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 25 and 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. Feb. 26.

Museum admission is free with a valid NCard for students, faculty and staff. Learn more about the museum.

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