The author served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Gabon before working in Mali. "How do we sew together the hoped-for future and the unfortunate past, the bright as well as the darker patches in our ...

“Quilting is mostly singing,” according to Nettie Young of Gee’s Bend, Alabama. Like singing, quilting is often a communal activity. Quilters gather to cut, piece, and stitch layers of fabric together ...

SAN ANTONIO — Quilts of family, black leaders, and names of those no longer with us line the walls at Central Library and Our Lady of the Lake University. "Black women have been quilting forever," ...

Quilts may simply be thought of as layers for warmth or quick metaphors for life that 13-year-old me used and abused. However, the current “Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (PIX11) — Quilting has been an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...