Oh, and everywhere an established pattern breaks down and gets a bit chaotic. (I love this show.) The exhibition’s final gallery pays homage to quilting as a living tradition. Quilts loaned by members ...

Two centuries later, a number of women in Oakland are recreating the Underground Railroad quilt. It’s one of the annual ...

She founded the African American Quilt Guild of Los Angeles and the Women of Color Quilters Network and is credited ... all of the bright colors and patterns,” she said. After the fashion show wrapped ...

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

Mormon women gathered to sew quilts to demonstrate their opposition to Donald Trump. They are concerned about Trump’s respect for the US Constitution. The group will deliver 68 quilts to a variety of ...

HIGHLANDS RANCH, CO ‒ Christina Marriott held up a piece of crookedly cut fabric and contemplated how to best to stitch it into a quilt headed for Congress. The square of white cloth was about ...

The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union created the “Drunkard’s Path” quilt pattern to promote abstinence from alcohol. During World War I, women raised money by quilting a popular Red ...

In 1985, she founded the Women of Color Quilters Network to connect artists ... Brown Green reinvents the traditional American-style flying geese quilt pattern by infusing it with African symbolism to ...

“I love the fact that women cared enough to do things to the best ... Depression-era double wedding ring quilts, mid-century African American quilts in improvisational patterns, and antique mosaic, ...

Tack’s prints are nods to the patterns that women ... and quilt making in her family. Tyson’s paintings have several inspirations, from Australian Aboriginal dot paintings to West African ...

Known for their innovative quilting tradition since the 19th century, the quilters, bold patterns ... has been featured in the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the ...

Just a few days shy of Black History Month, we took to the adidas headquarters to see the women of Gee’s ... We do not work by patterns. All of our quilting is done by hand,” she said.