The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive has one of the world’s largest collections of African American quilts — nearly 3,000 of them. BAMPFA’s latest exhibit, Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California, chronicles how quilt making played a part in the Second Great Migration, as millions of Black Americans fled the South’s oppressive racial landscape from 1940 to 1970.  “The storytelling and the insight into history that we now have through these objects is really extraordinary,” says BAMPFA curator Elaine Yau. “So many of these men and women were of the migrant generation who left the South during Jim Crow, also during World War II. Now we have this ability to tell this part of history — and how so much of Bay Area culture is inflected with Black Southern culture.” The exhibition is on display through November 30 at BAMPFA. For more information, visit the BAMPFA website, also linked in our bio: bit.ly/3FXWwMp For more 101 videos, visit ou...