African American Quilt Documentation Study Group
Bryan Wagner, Professor
English
Applications for Spring 2025 are closed for this project.
The Berkeley Folklore Program is partnering with Berkeley Art Museum to support for the African American Quilt Documentation Study Group -- a Bay Area nonprofit that maintains a registry of quilt stories that will eventually be catalogued at the Library of Congress. The work for URAP position involves organizing metadata and helping with the organization's database of quilts and artists. This database will also be put to use in coordination with an exhibit at Berkeley Art Museum, Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California (June 7, 2025—November 30, 2025).
Role: Assisting with a database focused on African American quilts and quiltmaking.
Day-to-day supervisor for this project: Elaine Yau
Hours: to be negotiated
Off-Campus Research Site: This work will be done remotely online.
Related website: https://bampfa.org/program/routed-west
Related website: https://bampfa.org/program/routed-west