The Saint Louis Art Museum recently announced the acquisition of “Pine Burr Quilt,” a colorful textile created in 1995 by artist Lucy Mingo in the rural community of Gee’s Bend, Alabama. The quilt was ...
Eli Leon, a psychologist, writer and collector and self-taught scholar of African-American quilts, who helped bring attention to the field and especially the quilts of Rosie Lee Tompkins, died on ...
More than 100 beautiful, fascinating quilts of widely varied styles made primarily by African American women with Bay Area ties, and many of the stories behind them, comprise a compelling new ...
SAN ANTONIO — Every second Saturday of the month at the Carver Library, you'll find a group of women with needles and thread in hand. They're members of the African American Quilt Circle of San ...
NEWTONVILLE, New Jersey (WPVI) -- A new quilt showcase at the African-American Heritage Museum of Southern Jersey is telling stories that go back generations. Ralph Hunter, of the African-American ...
FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - Books weren't the only things visitors were able to check out the last few days at a popular Mid-Michigan library. The African American Quilting Guild just wrapped up its 34th ...
The Portraits of Resistance and Resilience Exhibition will be displayed at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro through March 3, with an opening ceremony scheduled on Feb. 14. The gallery shows 11 quilts ...
Georgia Williams’ “Happy People” evokes a smile. In each of the 13 bright orange diamonds, a figure dances -- each individual locked in their own box but determined, nonetheless, to express themselves ...
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 ...
Chase Jackson never tried to quilt, but she knew the objects most commonly used as warm bed coverings also can serve as works of art. Jackson, executive director of the Ocean City Arts Center, proves ...
Threads of Confluence, a travelling exhibition, tells the story of a grand African migration to India, and the export of a ...
Portraits of the Resistance and Resilience Exhibition line the wall at The Arts Center in Carrboro on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. King, a member of the church’s arts ministry, recognized that Veasey shared ...
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