![This image depicts an artwork by April Bey titled "Y'all Hoes Have to Make Up Shit to Pretend That I'm Not That Bitch.." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures 80" x 60" [HxW] (203.2 x 152.4 cm). Its medium is Jacquard textiles, hand-sewn sherpa fabric, adorned jumbo clothespins, ponytail beads.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/AprilBey_BEY1145_1788979759-1662x2048.jpg)
April Bey
Sown Together: New Voices in Contemporary Textile Art
September 11, 2026 — January 24, 2027
Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture in Charlotte, NC
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.