BAMPFA.
As millions of African Americans sought greater opportunities and escape from the South’s oppressive racial environment from 1940 to 1970, they carried quilts as functional objects and physical reminders of the homes they left behind.
Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California traces the flow and flourishing of quilts in the context of the Second Great Migration.
On view through November 30, 2025
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94704