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Layla looking at the wall text about Wini McQuuen’s quilts, and noticing Wini’s picture

Layla and Wini at the beginning of the exhibition

Wini looking at her quilt wall

Layla asking a question about one of Wini’s quilts

Wini pointing out one of her quits

Layla and Wini checking out the slavery quilt wall

Closeups of some of Wini’s quilts symbolizing African beats and drumming not being allowed on plantations

Closeup of bird quilt

Closeup of quilt symbolizing no music being allowed on plantations after dark

Closeup of slave quilt

Layla deciphering the meaning of a quilt at Wini’s requet “What do you see?”

“I see sky and underbrush and a woman coming out of the forest- Harriet Tubman.”

Slavery quilt and clothing quilt below demonstrating the importance of cotton in the USA

Layla against the slavery wall of quilts

A quilt with weaving Wini made in college

Frederick Douglass quote quilt

Layla on to the Reconstruction quilt wall admiring a quilt about a the first African-American man to win a certain war medal- he was a local Macon resident

Layla with Dr. Andy Ambrose- Founder and Executive Director of The Tubman Museum

A beautiful velvet quilt

Quilts about local Macon residents – a nurse/mortician and a school teacher.

Layla with one of her favorite quilts from the exhibition about the local Macon woman who was a nurse and a mortician

Closeup of the local Macon teacher quilt

Wini describing the 3 dimensional effect and construction

Life imitates art

Layla looking at the local Macon musician quilt

Marching band quilt

Olmec design quilt Wni threw in to spark discussion

WIni and Layla

Life imitates art- Layla pretending to be a doll in the quilt depicting girls in the fine white dresses and their dolls

Closeup of one of Wini’s quilts

Tubman Museum groundbreaking and construction quilt showing businesses that used to be on the site and the outline of the actual museum

Hudie Leadbelly quote quilt

Layla with the quilt showing scenes from the Pan-African festival reminiscent of an African Mask

Closeup of quilt

Closeup of a metallic quilt showing the sheath of an Egyptian Sword

Layla looking closely at one of the lower quilts

Closeup of the Tubman Museum quilt

Layla reading the “Little Sally Walker” Quil

Layla with Wini talking about the “Little Sally Walker” rhyming song

Closeup of Layla and the quilt wall

Closeup of one of the higher quilts

Closeup of Arabic quilt

Red Bird with a fallen feather quilt

Wini reaching out to the red feather and pretending to have it land in her hand

Quilt made by kids who interned with Wini

Wini explaining that this quilt was made entirely by the children.

Layla with a donor quilt on the 2nd floor

Layla with a donor quilt on the 2nd floor

Layla with a donor quilt on the 2nd floor

Layla with a donor quilt on the 2nd floor

Layla with a donor quilt on the 2nd floor

Layla with a donor quilt on the 2nd floor

Layla checking out Wini’s quilt studies

Wini describing elements of one of her quilt studies

WIni on the bench outside of The Tubman

Closeup of Wini McQueen

Layla picking out quilt studies she likes

Wini describing the study showing African bowls

Layla admiring a particular one of Wini’s quilt studies

Wini McQueen quilt studies at Layla’s feet

Black and white photo of Wini and Layla

Sunny and hot outside- Wini and Layla taking a selfie

Layla narrowing the selections down to 3 pieces