About the Show

A play about the life and work of Harriet Powers, a former slave and artist, whose Bible quilt now hangs in the Smithsonian Institution. Part of Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival.

From the show:

Harriet Powers, farmer husband Armstead and children live on a farm near Athens, Georgia. She sews and made quilts which now hang in the Smithsonian Institution and the Boston Fine Arts Museums. The play also depicts the African rituals and myths changing into Christianity. Set in the mid-1880s.

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