A collaboration between history, art and a local quilting shop recently provided Prairie Grove Junior High students hands-on ...

Mount Vernon native and celebrated quilting artist Renée Fleuranges-Valdes is bringing color and joy to art lovers' homes everywhere with her debut art book "Becoming the Light: A Journal of ...

African quilting is a vibrant tradition that celebrates cultural heritage through intricate designs and patterns. Using fabric scraps to create these quilts not only promotes sustainability but also ...

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 ...

African Americans carried many things with them when fleeing the South’s oppression and poverty in the middle of the 20th Century – a movement of millions called the Second Great Migration. Among the ...

While we often associate quilts with their function as bedspreads or an enjoyable hobby, the roots of the craft run very deep. The art form has long been associated with storytelling, and numerous ...

The federal government revoked $460,000 in federal funding to a Berkeley, Calif., museum housing historic African-American quilts. The funds were to be used to conserve the quilts. The Berkeley Art ...

Standing on opposite sides of a roughly 9-by-12-foot table in a work room at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Collection Specialist Laura Hansen wears gloves. Joining to ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Like any jazz artist, the ability to adapt and improvise is a welcome skill. For the people in the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland, that skill reconciles years of ...

The Paul Family Quilt (1830-35), on display in "Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories," was made for a four-poster bed. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In 1812, Catherine Paul moved from Greenwich, ...