Naper Settlement program focuses how quilts guided slaves to freedom

Program at Naper Settlement explores how messages conveyed through quilts guided runaway slaves through the Underground ...
Yahoo

African American quilts honored in the Bay Area: ‘The tie that binds us to our ancestors'

Several handmade quilts were spread atop white folding tables at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, each waiting to be examined. Two women wearing cotton gloves hovered over them, ...
Newsday

Joan Hodges' quilt to honor trailblazers who've played key roles in the fight for civil and women's rights

A Hempstead woman who uses history and her African American heritage as inspiration for her art is now stitching together a quilt honoring local women and other trailblazers who've played major roles ...

When Madras Checks meet African memory: inside the Siddi women’s kavand quilt tradition

Threads of Confluence, a travelling exhibition, tells the story of a grand African migration to India, and the export of a ...
CNN

Bisa Butler’s stunning quilted portraits celebrate Black identity and African roots

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 ...
East Bay Times

UC Berkeley art museum to exhibit 20th century African American quilts

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 ...
BBC

African quilt sale to raise funds for Bristol refugees

Image caption, About 50 women worked on the quilt including refugees who live in the city A traditional African quilt has been made by women in Bristol to raise money for the British Red Cross and ...