Underground Railroad Quilt

I finally got the class quilt from 1st and 2nd quarter 8th grade art up in the lobby this week. Each student studied the way that slaves used quilt square patterns to (theoretically) pass along messages to help each other get to safety in the North. Then students designed their own squares which had a secret message which would have assisted an escaping slave. We made these out of paper, each student collaged their own square.