Wrenn Treadway

The Anderson Rosenwald School, located in Mars Hill, North Carolina, is now considered a very  historical site. Built in 1928, the Anderson Rosenwald School was an all-black school due to systematic racism and the Jim Crow laws. During this time, oppression was a very big issue and it was hard for black children to get an education.In an interview about the school, alumni Eugene Jones references a famous quote, saying that a mind is a terrible thing to waste.  On my quilting square, I put an apple and a tree, two symbols of education and this quote. The apple and the tree represent the importance of education and I put the quote to highlight that every mind matters and to show that the Rosenwald School itself had kept several impactful young minds from being wasted."

-Wrenn Treadway