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 ...
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 ...
Eli Leon's game-changing African American quilt donation stuns in "Routed West" at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ...
In 2023, the Smithsonian American Art Museum acquired thirty-five quilts from the collection of Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi. Mazloomi, who holds a doctorate in aerospace engineering, is a prolific artist, ...
The Princeton Sankofa Stitchers Modern Quilt Guild was formed in late 2015 by a group of African American women who began getting together casually to quilt and to share information about the craft.
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 ...
Phyllis Stephens 'My Life is a Bed of Roses' (2021) Quilt with sustainable fabrics 52 x 82 in; 58 x 88 in (fr) A woman reclines on her side, one arm props up her torso as the other arm reaches toward ...
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, ...
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," said Deborah ...
From when she was born, Ethel Hayden remembers quilting being a big part of her life growing up. The Tarentum resident found herself sitting in front of a quilting frame with her fingers weaving the ...
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 ...