More than fabric stitched for warmth, the quilts in Routed West carry the weight of memory, migration, and artistic inheritance. This landmark exhibition gathers a century of African American quiltmaking shaped by the Second Great Migration, many of their makers connected to the Bay.

Routed West honors these gorgeous quilts as vessels of kinship, resilience, and cultural ingenuity. Intimate cartographies holding ancestral knowledge, they map the distance between generations, and transform domestic labor into enduring artistic legacy.