Stitching Stories: Interwoven

May 6 - May 31, 2026

 

Stitching Stories: Interwoven builds upon the foundation established by Stitching Stories: Cross-Cultural Healing through Quilting and Textile Arts (2025), expanding an ongoing collaboration that brings together Asian and African American artists through textile practices, storytelling, and shared creative inquiry. Organized by the Heritage Museum of Asian Art in partnership with the Needles and Threads Quilters Guild, this exhibition continues to explore how cultural narratives can be carried, transformed, and connected through a collaboration before communities with love and care.

Emerging from an ongoing process of workshops, conversations, and community engagement that began in early 2025, Interwoven deepens the relationships formed in the initial phase of the project. Artists and participants bring in new works, new ideas, and strengthened connections. Textile becomes both medium and metaphor: a site where memory, migration, resilience, and imagination are stitched into form.

Building on the inaugural exhibition’s vision, Stitching Stories: Interwoven continues to cultivate a growing network of artists, organizers, and community members committed to cross-cultural connection. We believe that only through intentional cultural exchange can we begin to build a shared future together.

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Artist:

Thandi Cai
Jeanne Chaney
Summer Coleman
Sabba Elahi
Ernestine Fleming-Jones
Richard Gessert
Sungjae Lee
Patricia Morehead
Susan Trice
Trish Williams
Rosalind Wilson
Nik-ki Whittingham​