The PAGE (Partnership for Appalachian Girls’ Education) program is excited to showcase some of the quilt squares students and teachers created last summer to honor the history of the Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School.
The new humanities PageLab, connecting history and the arts, took place inside the historic Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School two-room schoolhouse. Students learned about the teachers, community members, and alumni who taught at, supported, and learned in the school. All of the teachers were African American and most of them were women, such as Mary Wilson, Frances Owens, Ruby Fortune, and Charity Ray.
These stories are important to our understanding of American history at any time, but as we moved through Black History month in February and now into Women’s History month in March, they feel especially relevant and timely.
To see the whole collection of quilt squares, and to listen to PAGE students, interns, and teachers talk about their quilt squares and what inspired them, go to pageprograms.com/the-girls-projects/interdisciplinary-labs/humanities-lab/quilt-2021.
The quilt squares shown here help preserve the legacy of the Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School. PAGE Program Director Maia Surdam worked with teaching artist and PAGE Project Facilitator Jenny Pickens to help the girls create the quilt squares.
