April Bey is included in the exhibition Sown Together: New Voices in Contemporary Textile Art, Curated by Dr. Anita N. Bateman and Asa Jackson at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture in Charlotte, NC.
The exhibition brings together textile works that explore identity, memory, migration, and the African diaspora through innovative material practices. Drawing on the dual meanings of sown and sewn – homophones that evoke both the planting of seeds and the joining of the exhibition, it considers textile as both material and metaphor. Just as seeds are planted to cultivate future growth, featured artists in the exhibition weave together ancestral memory, familial ties, and lived experience to advance new perspectives on Black identity and belonging.