COLLABORATION

 

Trails Tracks Tarmac exhibition “grew out of an interaction between a trained professional artist and a group of individuals who discovered their unique power of creative expression.”

THE QUILTING MINISTRY CREW

This project tangibly represents the work of 100+ individuals, 7 churches,

7 community enclaves and 13 schools, and it continually benefits from active community support.  The exhibition documents, visuals and voices include:

 

• 25 Documentary Story Quilts (Made by community members)

• A mural of community life from 1850 to the Present, by Artist Cisco Davis

• Photographs dating back to the early 1900’s

• DVDs and transcripts of Nonagenarians, integration pioneers and sports heroes

• Land deeds dating back to 1850

• Manumission (freedom) Papers & Amelung Bowl (circa 1790)

• Railroad items from the Baltimore & Ohio, and Pennsylvania lines

• Early 1900s church and school records

• Farm items and “Picker’s Checks” c 1875 – (farmhand currency)

• Arabber wagon c1945 – “grocery store on wheels”...

• Sports memorabilia

• Nicholas Matthews and James Spencer articles (A.A. Co. History Notes)

• Laurel Leader.com article on Nancy Matthews Daniels