TRENTON, New Jersey (WPVI) -- In Trenton, there's a new exhibit that stitches together stories with art and culture in the African American community. Inside the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie ...
Several handmade quilts were spread atop white folding tables at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, each waiting to be examined. Two women wearing cotton gloves hovered over them, ...
A Hempstead woman who uses history and her African American heritage as inspiration for her art is now stitching together a quilt honoring local women and other trailblazers who've played major roles ...
Brilliantly colored and full of visual drama, Bisa Butler’s larger-than-life sized quilted portraits are nearly indistinguishable from paintings. Creating works that have appeared on the cover of Time ...
Bright colors, unexpected combinations of fabrics and asymmetrical patterns are attracting new attention to African-American quilts in an exhibit that opened Saturday at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller ...
Pecolia Warner of Yazoo City, Miss., could give you a mood for every color she quilted. White, she once explained, is for peace. Yellow expresses love. Brass means trouble, mainly because it can turn ...
Stephen Towns. Special Child. 2016. Natural and synthetic fabric, nylon tulle, polyester and cotton thread, metallic thread, Thermoweb, cotton/polyester blend batting, crystal glass beads, resin and ...
A new exhibit brings to light the brilliant, bold and dynamic quilts created by a group of women who live in the isolated, African-American hamlet of Gee's Bend, Ala. Like many American quilters, the ...
About 50 women worked on the quilt including refugees who live in the city A traditional African quilt has been made by women in Bristol to raise money for the British Red Cross and highlight its work ...
Program at Naper Settlement explores how messages conveyed through quilts guided runaway slaves through the Underground Railroad.