When Eli Leon died, he bequeathed 3,000 African American quilts to the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. Some 500 were made by the famed artist Rosie Lee Tompkins. Teresa Duryea Wong interviewed Associate Curator & Academic Liaison Elaine Yau to get the inside story of how one mid-size museum became a major holder of thousands of quilts seemingly overnight. Available on YouTube – free and open to everyone.
