June 24, 2000

Michigan State University Museum; Cuesta Benberry Ephemera Collection; Black Diaspora Quilt History Project

Buffalo, New York, United States

An exhibit in Buffalo, NY, June - September 2000. Includes list of other venues in the travelling exhibit.

Common Threads:
The Buffalo-Ontario-Caribbean Connection

A Showing of Roland L. Freeman's A Communion of the Spirits,
Sponsored by the Langston Hughes Institute
in Collaboration with the Buffalo Museum of Science
June 24 - September 23, 2000

Including a Special Public Symposium:
Exploring Tradition & Change in Communities of the African Diaspora in
Ontario, Canada, Trinidad & Tobago, Curacao, and the USA
Saturday, June 24, 2000, 10:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Buffalo Museum of Science
1020 Humboldt Parkway
Buffalo, New York 14211

The exhibit is produced by The Group for Cultural Documentation (TGCD) of Washington, DC. The Symposium is a collaborative effort of TGCD, Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, the Langston Hughes Institute of Buffalo, NY and the Buffalo Museum of Science. The Symposium is supported by contributions from TGCD, the Turner Foundation and the Eleanor Ott Trust.

National Tour
A Communion of the Spirits:
African-American Quilters, Preservers,
and Their Stories

An exhibit of 200 photographs,
15 quilts, and other selected artifacts

Mississippi Museum of Art
Jackson, MS January 27 - April 6, 1997

National Civil Rights Museum
Memphis, TN April 13 - August 31, 1997

Museum of African American History
Detroit, MI January 17 - June 7, 1998

Atlanta History Center
Atlanta, GA July 12 - October 7, 1998

Arts and Industries Museum
The Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC November 15 - March 30, 1999

The Martin Luther King, Jr.
Performing and Cultural Arts Complex
Columbus, OH May 20 - September 18, 1999

Hampton University Museum
Hampton, VA October 22 - December 9, 1999

The San Diego Historical Society
San Diego, CA January 14 - June 4, 2000

Langston Hughes Institute Presents at
Buffalo Museum of Science
Buffalo, NY June 24 - September 3, 2000

The Gibbes Museum of Art
Charleston, SC September 28 - December 31, 2000

The Natural History Museum of
Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, CA March 17 - September 3, 2001

For more information contact Roland L. Freeman, Curator
The Group for Cultural Documentation, 117 Ingraham St., NW, Washington, DC 20011
Tel. -----------
ACCEPTING BOOKINGS FROM JULY 2001 THROUGH 2005

The book is available at all exhibit venues, at many local bookstores, or through Thomas
Nelson/Rutledge Hill Press, 211 7th Ave. North, Nashville, TN 3721-1873

Mrs. Annie Dennis (1904-1997)
Wilkinson County, Mississippi, 1977.
Photograph, copyright 1999 Roland L. Freeman.

Jim S. Smoote II. Chicago, Illinois, 1993.
Photograph, copyright 1999 Roland L. Freeman.

Adriene Cruz, Portland, Oregon, 1994.
Photograph, copyright 1999 Roland L. Freeman.