Routed West” expands on a previous display of Black diaspora works from the 1940-to-1970 Second Migration period.

May 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Frist Art Museum presents Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt ... bedcovers, quilts gained greater public visibility in the mid-19th century as makers began to ...

It is open to the public and anchored by five 19th-century Urhobo wood carvings of ... The dealer Bernard de Grunne, who specialises in African art and sold the Urhobo work to Lindemann, helped ...

First used to provide warmth and comfort as decorative bedcovers, quilts gained greater public visibility in the mid-19th century as makers ... "What is American? Who is American?" ...

The setting for their flights was what became known as the “Blue Highway,” which ran up and down the Eastern Seaboard and ...

Family heirlooms are the theme for this month’s column, including a fine example of an American ... irregular shapes. Such quilts were popular in the late 19th century, and yours is an ...

To avoid suffocation and starvation, her benefactors covered her with a quilt and put a little pillow ... brought him fame as an abolitionist. African American abolitionist William Still ...

For a long period of American history, art created by African Americans was considered irrelevant and unworthy of ...