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 ...

Exploring the Women of Color Quilters Network through SAAM’s collection Howard Kaplan Carolyn Mazloomi, The Family Embraces, 1997, machine reverse appliqued, hand-stitched, and quilted cotton ...

More than 100 beautiful, fascinating quilts of widely varied styles made primarily by African American women with Bay Area ties, and many of the stories behind them, comprise a compelling new ...

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 ...

“Quilting is mostly singing,” according to Nettie Young of Gee’s Bend, Alabama. Like singing, quilting is often a communal activity. Quilters gather to cut, piece, and stitch layers of fabric together ...

Almost 3,000 quilts by African American artists — including more than 500 by Rosie Lee Tompkins, a quilt maker whose formally inventive work has helped elevate the standing of the discipline in the ...

More than 100 beautiful, fascinating quilts of widely varied styles made primarily by African American women with Bay Area ties, and many of the stories behind them, comprise a compelling new ...

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 ...

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