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 ...

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.

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 ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Like any jazz artist, the ability to adapt and improvise is a welcome skill. For the people in the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland, that skill reconciles years of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bright colors, unexpected combinations of fabrics and asymmetrical patterns are attracting new attention to African-American ...

It’s the bold colors and creative designs that will first catch your eye as you walk through Bellevue Arts Museum’s show of quilts. But look closer. Spend time examining the stitching and tacking on ...