On August 23rd MoAD's latest online exhibit, Slave Narratives will be featured in Yahoo! Picks! as the website of the day.

Slave Narratives contains dramatic and powerful first-person stories from those who have suffered under slavery. Narrated by Maya Angelou and other acclaimed actors, the narratives originated from people across the globe, from the 1700s to the modern day.

Slave Narratives will be live on the MoAD website at www.moadsf.org on August 23.

PATTERNS

August 9 – October 16, 2006
Traditional West African Textiles and The Art of Gee’s Bend Quilts

The Museum of the African Diaspora is proud to present a display of textile art, which combines work from the west coast of the African continent with quilts by a creative community of women in Gee’s Bend, Alabama. The juxtaposition of these pieces, from contrasting origins, presents visitors with the opportunity to contemplate, reflect and question their parallels and similarities. Despite differences in time, history, geography and culture, stylistic similarities are so strong and so common that they suggest cultural continuity and related sensibilities that simply could not occur by chance.  More Info and related Public Programs>

Saturday, August 26 - Visual Rhythm:  Quilt in a Day - Beginners workshop for adults. More>