FREE. Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. at the Family Freedom Quilting Bee at Wave Hill on January 19 and 20, 2019 from 10am to 1pm. Free, and admission to the grounds is free until noon.

In 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., visited the Gee’s Bend Community in rural Alabama and the Freedom Quilting Bee was established. These now-famous quilts would later go on to fund aspects of the community’s freedom. Create your own brilliant, improvisational compositions out of bountiful squares of donated fabric, just for the joy of it and to honor Dr. King’s birthday and the inspiring women quilters of Gee’s Bend.