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Black Quilters

Storytelling through Art

Learn how quilting has been used in African American culture to tell stories throughout generations.

About the presenter: Dr. Tony Jean Dickerson (she/her) was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, and has earned degrees from Lincoln University, the University of Central Missouri, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. In 2019, after a successful thirty-year career in education, she earned her doctorate in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Kansas. She returned home in 2017 and became the lead faculty for Martin University’s School of Education’s Teacher Preparation Program in June of 2022. Besides teaching, Dr. Dickerson is a nationally recognized quilter and is a member of 8 local and national quilt guilds including the founding president of the Akoma Ntoso Modern Quilt Guild of Central Indiana.

This program was made possible by a grant from Indiana Humanities.