Project Threadways and Florence Arts & Museums Present Anita Flanagan Exhibition:
Using Our Cultural Clothing to Create for the Modern Native American
Friday, April 19, 2024
5:30 p.m.
Southall House (209 E. Tuscaloosa Street)
As part of the 2024 Project Threadways Symposium, Project Threadways and Florence Arts and Museums will host artist Anita Flanagan for a guided tour and exhibition at the Southall-Moore House (217 E. Tuscaloosa Street) at 5:30 p.m. on April 19, 2024. Titled Using Our Cultural Clothing to Create for the Modern Native American, this exhibit will showcase both traditional cultural garments made by Flanagan, as well as designs that integrate indigenous culture into contemporary clothing. This event is free and open to the public.
Born on the Qualla Boundary, home to the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indian in North Carolina, Flanagan has lived in or around Tuscumbia, Alabama, since high school. For more than thirty years, she has owned her own sewing and alteration business. Flanagan specializes in Native American cultural clothing and sews for members of all of the Southeastern Tribes, as well as some Western Tribes. She has been a participant and Board member of the Oka Kapassa Indian Festival, held every September in Tuscumbia, and most recently served as co-chair of the event. Flanagan currently serves on the Board of the Alabama Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association, where she acts as Chapter Vice-President, and sits on the Advisory Board for both the Muscle Shoals Heritage Association and the Florence Indian Mound Museum.
Project Threadways is a 501(c)(3) organization that documents, studies, and interprets history, community, and power through the lens of fashion and textiles. From raw material to finished goods, we seek to understand the impact of textiles on our community, nation, and world. In partnership with Alabama Chanin and The School of Making, we connect people, places, and materials through design, making, and education—with cultural heritage, craft preservation, and creative placemaking at the core of our work.
Florence Arts and Museums’ sites include the Kennedy-Douglass Center of the Arts, Rosenbaum House, Pope's Tavern Museum, and Indian Mound Museum.
Contact Olivia Terenzio at think@projectthreadways.org.