A valid criticism of art history as a discipline is the hierarchical manner in which art historians and other academics have ordered creative expression, placing history painting in oil in a position superior to all other types, and downright dismissing creative expressions with utilitarian purpose such as quilt making and Kente cloth. This project asked students to research the materials and methods in which to produce an art object made in a manner or material used by Black artists in the Americas or the Caribbean, then to make an object using that technique and those materials.