Legend has it that slaves running to freedom through the Underground Railroad used to look for North Star quilts on clotheslines of sympathetic Northerners. When the center of the quilt was black, the ...

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 ...

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.

Rose Miller made a quilt to make a statement. Actually, she made 18 statements, cutting each from wildly printed red and royal blue and purple fabrics, and sewing them onto a cream-colored background, ...

Art and history will converge in Cambridge, MD, when the National African American Quilt Guild (NAAQG) launches its inaugural national convention at the Dorchester Center for the Arts (321 High Street ...

As I greet Sauda Zahra and Edna C. Alston, two principal members of the African American Quilt Circle (AAQC), at a Ninth Street coffee shop and we begin to settle in, I notice that the three of us ...

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 ...

From left, Sylvan Mitchell, 15 of Vinland, Teagan Harmon, 9 of Lecompton, and Kearston Mohney, 16 of Lawrence, listen to Marla Jackson talk about a quilt called The Students from Marla Jackson's ...

When Ed Johnetta Miller is surrounded by the quilts she creates, she feels as though she is surrounded by her friends. “These are my heart and soul. They are special to me. They really make my heart ...

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 ...