The Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture will host the Woven Wind project featuring a selection of clay vessels and the showing of the film in progress, “Toles Family: Coming Home,” Friday, April 25, at 301 Main St., Natchez. The event will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. It is free and open to the public.

The film includes oral histories of the descendants of Tom Toles’ family who was enslaved at Monmouth plantation. Members of the family, like the late Mary Toles, became prominent members of the Natchez community. Mary Toles served as an Adams County Justice Court Judge and president of the Natchez NAACP. She was also a founding member of NAPAC museum. She died in 2017 at the age 77.

The exhibition and film will be preceded by Woven Wind’s community clay workshop, which is set for 12 to 2 p.m. Friday, at the Mississippi School of Folk Arts at 5 E Franklin St., Natchez. The workshop is also free to the public.

The Woven Wind project is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts Grant for Arts Projects.  

For more information, call 601-445-0728.

LINK: https://listenupyall.com/2025/04/10/woven-wind-is-coming-to-natchez/

Photo caption:

Terry Minor of Detroit, Michigan, is a member of the Toles family. He is being interviewed by Marlos Evan and Vesna  Pavlović from the Woven Wind team for the “Toles Family: Coming Home” film. The interview took place in 2021 at the Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture.