PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – Quilt making is an art that has often been forgotten, but the people behind the African American Sewcial Threaders Quilt Guild are on a mission to preserve it. In honor of ...

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, ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Like any jazz artist, the ability to adapt and improvise is a welcome skill. For the people in the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland, that skill reconciles years of ...

Juneteenth, which commemorates June 19, 1865 — the day the last enslaved people in Texas were freed — was observed this week. But the WorldBeat Cultural Center in Balboa Park is continuing the ...

African Americans carried many things with them when fleeing the South’s oppression and poverty in the middle of the 20th Century – a movement of millions called the Second Great Migration. Among the ...

Exploring the Women of Color Quilters Network through SAAM’s collection Howard Kaplan Carolyn Mazloomi, The Family Embraces, 1997, machine reverse appliqued, hand-stitched, and quilted cotton ...

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, or BAMPFA, collaborated with local artists to showcase 20th-century African American quilts in its new exhibition. The exhibit, titled “Routed West: ...

Lesyslie Rackard, standing next to the quilt she stitched herself, called "Oh Freedom, Oh Freedom." The quilt is a tribute to the Black soldiers who served in the Revolutionary War. On this week’s Joy ...

Cape Cod artist Joyce Miller's African American History Quilt Collection was on display in Wellfleet in January. If you missed it, see some of it here ...

Almost 3,000 quilts by African American artists — including more than 500 by Rosie Lee Tompkins, a quilt maker whose formally inventive work has helped elevate the standing of the discipline in the ...

In 1963, Faith Ringgold began a series of 20 paintings called "The American People." She she wanted to create images that would make people really look. "The more they look, the more they see," she ...