For the first time ever at Day of Unity and Healing, Dr. Joan M.E. Gaither will be conducting a documentary quilting workshop in the afternoon. No prior quilting experience is required. This quilting workshop will provide an opportunity to learn about documentary story quilting and then you will be able to create your own quilt square using personal photographs and objects. Dr. Gaither's documentary story quilts have been on display at each Day of Unity and Healing for the past four years. Registration is required.

Dr. Joan M.E. Gaither, a native Baltimorean with a history of helping to integrate local schools and businesses during the Civil Rights Movement, is an artist, teacher, and activist. She has created 183 documentary story quilts since 2000 and continues to hold quilting workshops that encourage participants to research, capture, and visualize personal oral histories and memories. Dr. Gaither’s documentary story quilts are a one-of-a-kind creation with complex themes and depth of expression in each quilt. Each documentary story quilt uses traditional quilting fabric’s, recycled clothing, and objects relevant to each quilt theme to create vibrant and colorful quilts to illuminate historical events, places or people that have shaped American History, She has created 300 documentary story quilts since 2000. Her documentary story quilts are included in personal collections and continue to be exhibited in local and national museums, galleries, schools, and churches.

The quilting workshop begins at 12:30 and costs $30 per person. There are limited seats, so click the button below to buy your tickets now!