African American quiltmaking is an art that stretches back as far as our forced presence on this country’s soil, and even further than that; African textiles, like the Democratic Republic of the ...

The group effort quickens the project’s pace and creates space for sharing skills and stories, sorrows and celebrations. Passing on traditions constructs a special sense of community along with a ...

The Swahili "kuumba," or creativity, is a fitting description for the colorful quilts on display in "Kuumba Connections" at the Ohio Craft Museum.

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

Though the quilters themselves may be unaware of it, contemporary African-American quilts often involve designs and techniques that have distinctively African roots. Maude Southwell Wahlman, guest … ...

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, $38.5… ...

More than a dozen quilts will be on display in Freeport through March 10.

The Eli Leon Collection comprises quilts by more than 400 black artists, including hundreds of pieces by the Richmond artist Rosie Lee Tompkins.

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 ...

A new exhibition at the BYU Museum of Art will feature 31 hand-made quilts created by African-American women of the Alabama region from 1945 to the present. “From Heart To Hand: African-American ...

The Washington State African American Quilt Documentation Project comes to Yakima on Aug. 26-28. Anyone with an African American family quilt, quilt top or bed covering in any condition — ...