Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

1/1/1982 - 7/31/1983

Funding Totals

$15,653.00 (approved)
$15,653.00 (awarded)


An Exhibition of the Tradition of Southern Afro-American Handcrafts

FAIN: GM-20664-82

University of Mississippi (University, MS 38677-1848)
Maude S. Wahlman (Project Director: July 1981 to October 1990)

To support implementation of an exhibition examining the technological and cultural roots of Afro-American quilts, and the creolizing process whereby Afro-American women have transformed African and Anglo-American textile traditions into a uniquely American cultural form.