Jubilee Crafts and Storytime! : Stitched Stories Summer Workshop
About this Event
Stitched Stories is a summer storytime + art workshop series hosted by Miss Lily, exploring memory keeping, family traditions, and the rich history of Black narrative textiles through storytelling and hands-on crafts labs inspired by the artists: Harriet Powers, The Gee's Bend Quilters, Faith Ringgold, Yinka Shonibare, Tschabalala Self, and Bisa Butler.
Children will discover how artists have used fabric, quilting, and textile traditions to preserve stories, culture, and identity across generations while creating their own textile-inspired works.
Jubilee Crafts is grateful to be supported in part by the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture!
South Dallas Cultural Center
3400 South Fitzhugh Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75210
Multi Arts Room B Morning sessions start at 11 AM!
Workshop Schedule:
WEEK ONE
July 8
Harriet Powers
Book: Sewing Stories: Harriet Powers’ Journey from Slave to Artist
Craft: Pictorial Story Quilt Panel
Storytime + Craft Outcome:
Children will discover how Harriet Powers recorded history through stitched imagery. They will design their own quilt square illustrating a fairy or folk tale.
July 9
Gee’s Bend Quilters
Book: Stitchin’ and Pullin’: A Gee’s Bend Quilt
Craft: Family Legacy Patchwork Quilt Square
Storytime + Craft Outcome:
Children will explore how quilts preserve family history and community memory. They will create geometric patchwork-inspired squares representing home, belonging, and family traditions.
July 10
Faith Ringgold
Books: Faith Ringgold: Narrating Life with Pattern and Color and Tar Beach
Craft: Summer Memory Quilt Collage
Storytime + Craft Outcome:
Children will imagine a memory, dream, or place of freedom and transform it into a quilt-inspired storytelling collage.
WEEK TWO
July 22
Yinka Shonibare
Short Video: Becoming an Artist: Yinka Shonibare | Tate Kids
Book: Anansi and the Talking Cloth by Caroline Brewer
Craft: Story Cloth Puppet Collage
Storytime + Craft Outcome:
Children will explore African storytelling traditions and vibrant textile symbolism. Creating characters like Yinka by designing patterned Anakara cloth figures inspired by folktales, movement, and imagination.
July 23
Tschabalala Self
Book: Dream Street
Craft: Fabric Portrait Collage
Storytime + Craft Outcome:
Children will explore self-expression through portraiture, using layered fabrics and mixed materials to create expressive portraits inspired by their identity and personal style.
July 24
Bisa Butler
Books: Mae Makes a Way and Rise!: From Caged Bird to Poet of the People, Maya Angelou
Craft: Feathered Hat Felt Portrait Piece
Storytime + Craft Outcome:
Children will learn how portraiture can celebrate boldness and self-determination. Inspired by Bisa Butler’s layered textile portrait " I Know why the Caged Bird Sings", they will create decorated felt hats symbolizing confidence, creativity, and personal power.
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