Please join Learning Through Art, Inc. on Saturday, March 2nd for our final Story Quilts celebration on location with our partners at Wave Pool!

Address: 2940 Colerain AvenueCincinnati, OH, 45225

Learning Through Art, Inc., invites the community to gather for the Closing Reception –  in recognition and celebration of the Story Quilts: Touring Exhibition's extended stay at Wave Pool: A Contemporary Art Fulfillment Center, in Camp Washington.

The Story Quilts Exhibition has been on view at the Wave Pool Gallery since Saturday, January 13, and on Saturday, March 2, 2024, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., you are invited to join LTA, their partners, sponsors, and contributing community artists at Wavepool, in Camp Washington, for the ceremonious closing whereby all of the Community Conversation constituents and partners have been invited to receive the completed quilts created at their respective hosting sites. Each quilt will be gifted to the organization’s representative in attendance, to return to its place of origin in order to hold space for and continue the conversations of our truths and reconciliation.

Story Quilts have been created across the Cincinnati area over the course of the last two-and-a-half years – since the spring of 2021 – during small-group sessions across Cincinnati neighborhoods where community participants shared their truths in environments that promoted healing and restoration. During truth-telling, participants used various tools to create unique designs on quilt squares that were later joined into inspired community quilts, including a quilt that was created at the Findlay Market Night Market in July of 2023, and later presented to Little Amal as she took her rest at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center during Cincinnati's Walk With Amal on September 22, 2023, presented in partnership with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra.

"We are so honored to be sharing this extraordinary collection of quilt art, which was created through the efforts of our many facilitators, partners, sponsors, educators, and neighbors," shared Learning Through Art, Inc. Operations Manager, Kelly Asbury.

Learning Through Art, Inc. first organized Story Quilts Community Conversations in 2021 as part of a regional and national truth and reconciliation program in partnership with the Center for Community Resilience at The George Washington University. Community Conversation participants are citizens and neighbors from Cincinnati and beyond who join in a facilitated discussion, share their truths on systemic racism, and propose solutions that we must all seek for reconciliation.

Join us in celebrating our community patchwork quilts for resilience!

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We are grateful to be honoring these organizations whose involvement has been key to the Story Quilts project:

 Hosting Site Partners:

• Booker T. Washington Community Center

• Lincoln Grant Scholar House

• Wyoming Center for the Arts

• Joining Forces For Children

• Cincinnati Public Schools Innovation Planning Strategy Team

• Harriet Beecher Stowe House

• Findlay Market Workshop for Little Amal

• Fitton Center For Creative Arts

• Xavier University; Institutional Diversity and Inclusion

• Wave Pool: A Contemporary Art Fulfillment Center

 
Thank you to our Sponsors & our Story Quilts Partners

This work has been made possible through the support and collaboration of our sponsors and partners. We thank you all.

Sponsors:

• Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile Jr. Foundation

• 7 Principles Foundation

• Center for Community Resilience; Milken Institute School of Public Health; The George Washington University

• ArtsWave

• CET/PBS

• Metro

• The Cincinnati Herald

Partners:

• Cincinnati Arts Association

• Revolution Dance Theatre

• Women of Color Quilters Network, Inc.

• Fitton Center For Creative Arts

• LAG Productions

• Cincinnati Museum Center

• Elementz

• Cincinnati Public Schools

• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

• Harriet Beecher Stowe House

• Cincinnati Boychoir

• Wyoming Fine Arts Center

• Joining Forces For Children

• Xavier University

• Findlay Market

• Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

• Lincoln Grant Scholar House

• Booker T. Washington Community Center

• Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library

• Wave Pool: A Contemporary Art Fulfillment Center

• The Well

From all of us at Learning Through Art, Inc. to all of our facilitators, partners, sponsors, educators, and neighbors, thank you for being a part of the conversation.

We thank you all and look forward to honoring these organizations at our Closing Ceremony!