Contemporary African-American artist LaShawnda Crowe Storm will speak on "Art as a Vehicle for
Dialogue and Social Change" at 6 p.m. Friday, in 204 Fine Arts Center at Bowling Green State
University.
Crowe Storm is the creator of The Lynch Quilts Project, a community-based initiative that explores the
history and ramifications of the racial violence, particularly lynching, in the United States through
the textile tradition of quilting. The project itself consists of six quilts that explore the phenomenon
of lynching through the perspective of gender, collective memory, communal conflict, politics and
healing.
Quilt I of the Lynch Quilts Project, "Her Name Was Laura Nelson," will be on displayed in the
lobby of the Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery through March 5.
This quilt is the focus of BGSU second-year art history graduate student Viola Ratcliffe, who is writing
her thesis on the quilt and the role of witnessing in community formation. Ratcliffe will introduce the
speaker.
In addition to the ArtTalk, Crowe Storm will serve as a guest juror for the BGSU Spring 2015 BFA Thesis
Exhibition and meet with high school students from Maumee Valley Day School in Toledo, where she will be
featured as their Black History Month speaker.
