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

Quiltmaking among African-Americans has a richly textured history. In a new book called “Black Threads: An African American Quilting Sourcebook” (MacFarland & Co., 260 pages, $38.50), author Kyra E.

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.

Brilliantly colored and full of visual drama, Bisa Butler’s larger-than-life sized quilted portraits are nearly indistinguishable from paintings. Creating works that have appeared on the cover of Time ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Eli Leon, a Bronx-born, Oakland psychotherapist who quit to devote his life to becoming a foremost scholar and collector of African American quilts, has died at 82. Leon died unexpectedly March 6 of ...