Quilting has been part of American culture for centuries. And although quilts were originally produced to provide warmth and protection, they have become regular features in art museums in the past ...

Renowned author and scholar Dr. Jessica B. Harris has dedicated her career to the study of foods across the African Diaspora. With the opening of African/American: Making the Nation's Table, an ...

SAN ANTONIO — Every second Saturday of the month at the Carver Library, you'll find a group of women with needles and thread in hand. They're members of the African American Quilt Circle of San ...

A statewide search is underway for African American family quilts to be included in a quilt documentation project. A’donna Richardson of Tacoma is coordinating the project. She created Fabrics of ...

“Eli Leon’s interest in quilts began with his fascination for things recycled out of old materials. The California-based quilt historian had amassed a large collection of traditional quilts before he ...

During the short dark days, many fight the urge to hide under the covers. An exhibition of quilts, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, could provide needed comfort.

Eli Leon, a psychologist, writer and collector and self-taught scholar of African-American quilts, who helped bring attention to the field and especially the quilts of Rosie Lee Tompkins, died on ...

Much like certain perspectives have historically been shut out from the mainstream, certain art forms have, too. Quilts are one such medium, often pushed outside of the traditional fine art world and ...

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 ...

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 ...