Interwoven Voices: A Story-Sharing Session with the Artists

Join us for a story-sharing session for Stitching Stories: Interwoven, an exhibition celebrating cross-cultural collaboration through textile art. Hear directly from the artists as they share their inspirations, concepts, personal stories, and creative processes.

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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Participating Artists:

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