African quilting is a vibrant tradition that celebrates cultural heritage through intricate designs and patterns ...

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.

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 ...

I’m a folklorist, not an historian. My kind typically uses the past to help understand the present, rather than treating the past as subject matter in its own right. So I find myself turning Black ...

UC Berkeley Art Museum was recently gifted the world’s largest collection of this type of art, all of it created by black women. Much like certain perspectives have historically been shut out from the ...

The collector Eli Leon left almost 3,000 quilts by African-American artists to Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive as a bequest. By Peter Libbey Almost 3,000 quilts by African-American ...

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 ...

Dot Guthrie and Charles Whitesides stand next to the Gaston County Business Pioneers Quilt on display at the African American Museum of History & Culture at Loray Mill in Gastonia Tuesday afternoon, ...

Abernathy's masterpiece was one of eight selected from a group based in Greater Cleveland: the African American Quilt and Doll Guild. The organization meets regularly at the Warrensville Heights Civic ...

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