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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Threads of Confluence, a travelling exhibition, tells the story of a grand African migration to India, and the export of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The federal government revoked $460,000 in federal funding to a Berkeley, Calif., museum housing historic African-American quilts. The funds were to be used to conserve the quilts. The Berkeley Art ...

African American Quilt Documentation Day at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive In conjunction with the quilt exhibit, Routed West: 21st Century African American Quilts in California, the ...