How do stories and threads stitch us together? In this class, we’ll explore how we are woven into family and community by reading Alice Walker, Ruperta Bautista Vazquez, and the historian, Tiya Miles, who teaches us that cloth “symbolically represents our own bodies, our temporal lifelines, and our social ties to one another.” We will turn to the work of artists such as Faith Ringgold, Kimsooja, and Raisa Kabir and ask: How do things like quilts and clothes tell stories, hold knowledge, and make meaning? Projects will offer opportunities for writing and textile forms of making.LITPA 200 courses introduce students to the study of literature or the performing arts, emphasizing analysis of both particular works and of the range of genres, periods and traditions. Frequent reading and writing assignments will be made.

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