Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California, the second BAMPFA exhibition drawn from the Leon collection, after the transcendent Rosie Lee Tompkins show in 2020, demonstrates ...

The quilt is part of the Museum of Food and Drink’s “African/American” exhibit at the Africa Center in New York City.

Reflections on Pine – Muralist Michael Rosato. By Jannette J. Witmyer Special to the AFRO #AFRONews@Noon. Art and history will converge in Cambridge, MD, when the National African American Quilt ...

Quiltmaking among African-Americans has a richly textured history. In a new book called “Black Threads: An African American Quilting Sourcebook” (MacFarland & Co., 260 pages, $38.5… ...

“Kuumba Connections: Quilts by Contemporary African American Artists” continues through April 2 at the Ohio Craft Museum, 1665 W. Fifth Ave. Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Quilts have been around for centuries, and in black history, they have strong symbolism. “Anytime we can uplift the arts and show diverse voices and tell our American ...

The African American Quilt & Doll Guild has an exhibit at the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Museum Gallery at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport through December. The guild also has its 5th Biennial ...

As I greet Sauda Zahra and Edna C. Alston, two principal members of the African American Quilt Circle (AAQC), at a Ninth Street coffee shop and we begin to settle in, I notice that the three of us ...

More than a dozen quilts will be on display in Freeport through March 10. ... Like many African-Americans, ... she created a quilt with Obama’s face as the centerpiece.

Marina Kovalyou and Laura Gadson understand why Harlem and Russian quilt makers could be unaware of each other's existence for centuries and yet use the same stitching in their work.

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 ...

When Rhonda Masters, co-founder of the National African American Quilt Guild (NAAQG), learned that the Universal Sailing Club (USC), a Baltimore-based organization of Black sailors, was preparing ...