Deez Nites Be All Da Same To Me

A Traveling Contemporary Quilt Exhibition
by Leslie A. Golomb and Louise Silk

The historic fate of two separate groups of people, Jews and African-Americans, distanced by a span of three millennia, are linked together through the artistry of Leslie A. Golomb and Louise Silk. These two artists have created a series of quilts depicting the linked story of a Jewish slave-owning family, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lyons Moss, and their run away slave boy. The inescapable parallel between the Jewish Exodus from Egypt, as related in the telling of Passover, and the flight to freedom experienced by the boy is visually linked with symbolic images and text, many based on the system of quilt patterns that were used as signals for slaves attempting to flee through the Underground Railroad.