Bound Together: Threads of Remember Exhibit

August 23 - December 13

Bound Together is a community art exhibit honoring Jefferson County’s 30+ known lynching victims. The exhibit features mixed media works by local artists and community members and serves as the culminating showcase of The Jefferson County Memorial Quilt Project. Created to provide space for residents to reflect on central Alabama’s history of racial violence, the project invites our community to remember, to confront, and to imagine a more just future.

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Reckoning with History

The Jefferson County Memorial Quilt Project uses art as a way to spark honest conversations about race, justice, and unity. Quilt blocks, created during public sewing workshops across Jefferson County, memorialize victims and offer a space for residents of all ages to come together, reflect on our region’s painful history of racial terror, and imagine a better future.

Bound Together brings the Memorial Quilt into conversation with artworks from The Black Cherry Tree Project—an evolving collection of pieces commissioned in response to the lives and legacies of those lost to racial violence in Jefferson County. Together, these works form a living archive that holds grief and beauty side by side.

This exhibit is produced in partnership with Bib & Tucker Sew-Op, The Black Cherry Tree Project, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, CREATE Birmingham, and the Jefferson County Memorial Project.

Come see history in person.

Experience Bound Together in person. Come see the quilts, feel the stories, and be part of the conversation.

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The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute will reopen on May 27, 2026 at noon.

This brief delayed opening will allow staff and vendors time to complete final preparations for safe public access to the building. Thank you again for your patience, support, and understanding throughout this process. We look forward to welcoming visitors back today.