Curator's Tour: Elaine Yau on Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California

Fri Nov 14 2025 at 05:30 pm to 07:00 pm UTC-08:00

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Curator's Tour: Elaine Yau on Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California
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Join BAMPFA Associate Curator and Academic Liaison Elaine Yau on a curator-led tour of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California where she will share in-depth stories of individual quilts in the exhibition that illuminate the bonds of love, kinship, commemoration, and innovative artistry entwined in their making.

ABOUT ELAINE YAU
Elaine Y. Yau (PhD 2015) is associate curator of the African American quilt collection at BAMPFA, where she is organizing an exhibition from Eli Leon’s historic bequest of approximately 3,000 quilts for fall 2024. She co-curated Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective in 2020 with Larry Rinder, an exhibition deepened her long-standing engagement with art at the intersection of discourses on folk art, vernacular culture, and modernism. She has published on Gertrude Morgan and Minnie Evans, and her critical essay on folk art was included in The Routledge Companion to African American Art History. Her research has been supported by the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art; and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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