Even after losing more than $260,000 in federal support for its latest exhibition, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive isn’t backing down.
“We will persist. We will continue,” BAMPFA director Julie Rodrigues Widholm told the Chronicle. “We believe deeply that this is meaningful work.”
Indeed, “Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California,” on view through Nov. 30, goes beyond simply displaying a kaleidoscopic delight of more than 100 quilts. The exhibition centers African American stories by incorporating profound historical research that reveals new depths to quilt-making traditions…