Artist Bisa Butler has been called a modern-day Griot. But instead of using words to tell stories, she uses stitches and cloth. Her quilts have graced the covers of magazines, and she created the ...

The exhibition “Quilts of Gee’s Bend,” which appeared at the High Museum of Art in 2006, featured 60 colorful, geometrically designed quilts hand-stitched by the direct descendants of slaves living in ...

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 ...

NORWALK — Portraits quilted from minute pieces of fabric hang from the walls of the Sidewalk Gallery on South Main Street. In the likeness of Barack Obama, a yellow fabric printed with African lips ...

Cross-stitched images of racial violence victims over the decades can be seen on quilts at Mississippi's Jackson State University as a part of the Stitch Their Names Memorial Project. A group of about ...

Riche’ Richardson was raised by a close-knit Montgomery family, full of hard workers. Their lives, she said, were busy. In the midst of working as educators and nurses and construction workers, they ...

It was inevitable that Deborah Hyde, who won this year's Handi Quilter Best of Show Award for the International Quilt Festival, would become a quilter. Always interested in art and portrait drawing, ...

The 50th woman to fly into space has paid tribute to the first woman and first American woman to do so with a pair of original works celebrating the first 60 years of women in space. Former NASA ...