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Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...
Quilts carried during the migration of millions of Black people from the South star at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific ...
Benberry, Cuesta. Always There: The African American Presence in American Quilts. The Kentucky Quilt Project, Inc.: Louisville, 1992. A selection of quilts and with chapters that include slave-made ...
A Seattle man’s 19th-century quilts tell our story of slavery and freedom . ... that was her job,” said Williams, a scholar of African-American, Civil War and Reconstruction history.
The DuSable show is drawn from the collection acquired by the Michigan State University Museum (also home of the Great Lakes Quilt Center). DuSable exhibition unpacks collection of African ...
Colonial Williamsburg has been collecting African-American quilts for more than two decades, and a new exhibit at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum showcases a select group of 12 that ...
Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California at BAMPFA, 2155 Center St., Berkeley. One block from BART. June 8-Nov. 30. Free entry June 8. See website for a list of related ...
Gift of local art historian Cuesta Benberry By American staff The Saint Louis Art Museum recently announced the acquisition of “Pine Burr Quilt,” a colorful textile created in 1995 by artist ...
Exhibition Featuring 19th-Century African American Master Cabinetmaker Thomas Day ... The exhibition also includes three period quilts from the collection of ... The Mogul” begins at 1 p.m. Friday, ...
The quilts, bundled back into acid-free paper and boxes after the viewing, are among 100 from 80 artists soon to be included in “Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in ...