Tour Date: Thursday Nov 19th, 11 am ET

Tour Cost (includes entrance fee): $10 (no extra taxes or credit card fees) (Note this payment covers your entrance fee and the tour, no other tickets are needed)

Cancelation Deadline: Nov 10th, 11:59 pm ET

Tour Limit: 15 people (open to all QU on Nov 1, 2026)

Meeting Location: Ticketing Desk

Security Reminder: There will be bag and electronic screening, so please check the list of allowable items

Nearby Metro Stop: Metro Center or Gallery Place

Join us for a docent-led tour of the exhibit, Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts on Thursday 19 November at 11 a.m.

The exhibit traces the flow and flourishing of quilts in the context of a mass movement of approximately five million African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North and West between 1940 and 1970. Nearly 80 artworks highlight artistic approaches such as repurposing work clothes, improvisational piecing, pattern-based quilting, and tying. The quilts by more than 70 individuals thread the needle between Black people’s historical movements and their quilts to tell stories of collective care, resilience, and creativity.

For more information on the exhibit go to  https://nmwa.org/exhibitions/routed-west-twentieth-century-african-american-quilts-in-california/.

For more information on visiting the museum go to https://nmwa.org/visit/plan-your-visit/.