Playdate, 2018
Quilts may be used to address social issues of all kinds, including racism, as in this depiction of a play date between mothers and their children, one pair black and one white. As Mazloomi states, the scene reminds us that lessons conveyed in childhood “tend to stick with us for life. Racism is a learned behavior,” but parents modeling friendship will be learned and mirrored by their children.
Cotton. Made and lent by Carolyn Mazloomi