Jul 15, 2025 Quilting isn’t just a pretty blanket.
The summer reading theme for 2025 is Color Our World. What better way to celebrate this theme than to learn about quilting and its cultural significance.
From 2-3 p.m., July 26, at the Zionsville branch, please join Dr. Tony Jean Dickerson, the Founder and President of the Akoma Ntoso Modern Quilt Guild of Central Indiana, as she discusses the role of quilting in African American culture. While she does utilitarian quilts for family and friends, she has also joined in the quilting community’s efforts to use quilts to honor our political, social and literary heritage. She has shown quilts at the National African American Quilt Convention in Lawrence, KS, Brown v Board of Topeka Museum in Topeka, KS, and Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama. Some of these themes were to honor Zora Neale Hurston, Tarana Burke (Me, Too Founder), and her family ancestors.
She will showcase some of her quilts as well as share her vast knowledge of quilting and its cultural significance.
Learn more about Dr. Dickerson and Akoma Ntosos: Our 2024 Board – Akoma Ntoso
