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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Hempstead woman who uses history and her African American heritage as inspiration for her art is now stitching together a quilt honoring local women and other trailblazers who've played major roles ...

Just as the COVID-19 pandemic was beginning, a group of African American women banded together with purpose: support one another as quilt artists and capture and promote the culture of their community ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California" is on view at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ...

Brilliantly colored and full of visual drama, Bisa Butler’s larger-than-life sized quilted portraits are nearly indistinguishable from paintings. Creating works that have appeared on the cover of Time ...

The design committee of Ripley Main Street Association came up with an idea to create a quilt trail in Ripley, focusing on African-American quilt patterns. “We plan on starting out with 10 boards and ...

Hanaphabi and Saidambi Naik, two middle-aged women from the Kalaghatgi taluk in Karnataka’s Dharwad district, were restless at first to speak in front of a camera. A few whisper-filled moments later, ...

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 ...