The African American Quilt Guild of Gaston County takes pride in maintaining Black history in quilting and supporting the community with their work. Barbara Hart, 80, started the quilt guild in April ...

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 ...

The Saint Louis Art Museum recently held a celebration of African-American quilts, which was part recognition of local quilt historian Cuesta Benberry and part education seminar on the subject. The ...

Juneteenth, which commemorates June 19, 1865 — the day the last enslaved people in Texas were freed — was observed this week. But the WorldBeat Cultural Center in Balboa Park is continuing the ...

ROCKFORD -- The history of quilting in African American culture is often overlooked. The powerful works of art tell the stories of slavery, freedom, and family. "Each block is unique within itself. If ...

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 ...

When Chandler resident Pamela Howard sits down to stitch a quilt, she draws inspiration from her black ancestors, former slaves who used the codes hidden in the cloth to find freedom in the North and ...

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 quilt titled ‘Family,’ quilted by Ann Joseph of the Heritage Quilters, is displayed. Individuality and bright, bold colors are the essence of black quilting. MCT photo Wanda Carter shows a quilt she ...

Standing on opposite sides of a roughly 9-by-12-foot table in a work room at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Collection Specialist Laura Hansen wears gloves. Joining to ...

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 ...