North Lawndale African American Heritage Quilting Project

The North Lawndale African American History Quilting Project engages North Lawndale residents in the research of the history and culture of African American residents and express their findings in a community quilt. Subject matter includes family trees, family traditions, poems, stories, famous quotes, neighborhood traditions, church or organization traditions, famous people from North Lawndale, North Lawndale icons, the relationship between African American and Jewish experiences in North Lawndale; the Civil Rights Movement; the African influence in Mexico; the Migration of African Americans from the South, etc.

Valerie is the project manager, and has assembled a team consisting of the Better Boys Foundation, Urban Arts Retreat, K-Town Historic District and the Prevention Force Family Center. She has also developed the project structure depicting roles and responsibilities of team members; developed a blog to document the project’s progress and provide quilting resources; provided research support; developed marketing collateral materials; developed community outreach strategies; developed a six-week series of quilting and embroidery workshops and coordinated special events.

You may visit http://northlawndale quilting.blogspot.com for more details.

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