Our next Story Quilts: Community Conversations will take place in August!
We provide the art supplies, snacks, and moderation – you bring your participation and community!
The next Community Conversation:
August 29, 2026 from 1-5pm at the Fitton Center For Creative Arts in Hamilton, Ohio
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Learning Through Art, Inc. (LTA), a Cincinnati-based non-profit organization offering community-engaging cultural arts programs for over 30 years, has been proud to present the Story Quilts project – Join the Conversation.
Beginning with the original exhibition, We Are the Story: A Visual Response to Racism, during its nearly three-month run at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, was curated by Dr. Carolyn Mazzloomi through the work created by over 50 quilters within the Women of Color Quilters Network. This exhibition, organized following the brutal murder of George Floyd, serves as a medium for storytelling, protest, and healing, allowing voices that are under-represented to share their truths.
Though the internationally acclaimed textiles exhibition is no longer available for viewing in Cincinnati, you can still view a sampling right here at StoryQuilts.org!
We extend the utmost gratitude to all of our sponsors for continuing to bring the Story Quilts project to life. We look forward to connecting with YOU in August.
Now more than ever, we need to engage, connect, and talk with one another. Whether through words or images, please consider joining the conversation through the Story Quilts project.
Story Quilts engages participants to share their truths from the patchwork of their lives, weaving stories creating a tapestry of reconciliation and resilience. Story Quilts provides a platform for LTA’s Arts Over ACEs Center (Adverse Childhood Experiences), to bring visual, craft and performance art together as a foundation to guide honest and open community conversations about systemic racism and social justice – leading to truth-telling and finding reconciliation in hopes of building more resilient people and communities.
How to Participate:
Story Quilt Community Conversations provide the opportunity for citizens and neighbors here in Cincinnati and beyond to join in a facilitated discussion to share their truths on systemic racism and ethnocentricsm, as well as solutions that we must all seek for reconciliation. During the event, you will also create a quilt square – with materials we provide – to visually capture your story and become a piece of the community patchwork quilts for resilience.
A Black Anthology of Music
We invite you to experience an auditory exploration of reconciliation with A Black Anthology of Music: The Resilience of Jazz, an engaging, expanded performance concert that traces the historical parallels of Jazz and the systemic racism built into the framing of America. This Books Alive! For Kids® Family Adventure features Kathy Wade with the Cincinnati Boychoir, Revolution Dance Theatre, Elementz and the Cincinnati Public School Jazz Academy. Please click the button below to watch the regional EMMY award-winning production!
As an ArtsWave Master Artist Truth and Reconciliation commissioned work, Kathy Wade’s Story Quilts is part of the national Truth and Reconciliation pilot project in partnership with the Center for Community Resilience, George Washington University, and Joining Forces for Children at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
Story Quilts is made possible through the generous support of The Ralph V. and Carol Ann Haile Foundation, 7 Principles Foundation, ArtsWave, Metro, and the Center for Community Resilience at George Washington University.
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