Kith & Kin: the Quilts of Gee’s Bend Exhibition

Name: Kith & Kin: the Quilts of Gee’s Bend Exhibition
Start: 2026-03-03T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-03T17:00:00+00:00
Location: American Museum & Gardens

Schedule

Tue Mar 03 2026 at 10:00 am to 05:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

American Museum & Gardens | Bath, EN

Kith & Kin: the Quilts of Gee’s Bend Exhibition
Open from 14 February – 21 June 2026
Kith & Kin: the Quilts of Gee’s Bend exhibition celebrates the extraordinary work of a group of African American women from a remote river island community in Alabama which embodies a 200-year tradition of making quilts that hold both profound artistic and political significance.
Co-organised by the Irish Museum of Modern Art/IMMA, Dublin and Souls Grown Deep, USA (a non-profit organisation dedicated to the recognition and empowerment of Black artists from the American South) this is the only showing of the exhibition in the UK.
With skills and traditions passed down primarily from mother to daughter, the women of Gee’s Bend have created quilts that are renowned for their improvisational style, bold colours, and abstract designs, often compared to modernist art movements like abstract expressionism.
Plan your visit:
www.americanmuseum.org/exhibitions