Bright colors, unexpected combinations of fabrics and asymmetrical patterns are attracting new attention to African-American quilts in an exhibit that opened Saturday at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller ...

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

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Ten years ago, Sandra Noble of Warrensville Heights bumped into a friend, Gloria Kellon, at a Jo-Ann Fabric store, and the two realized they share a passion for quilting. Noble and ...

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, ...

A quilt on display at the African American Museum shines a light on Black entrepreneurship throughout Gaston County's history, says museum founder Dot Guthrie. “This is for community,” said Guthrie, ...

Quilts of family, black leaders, and names of those no longer with us line the walls at Central Library and Our Lady of the ...

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 ...

Eli Leon, a Bronx-born, Oakland psychotherapist who quit to devote his life to becoming a foremost scholar and collector of African American quilts, has died at 82. Leon died unexpectedly March 6 of ...

SAN ANTONIO — Every second Saturday of the month at the Carver Library, you'll find a group of women with needles and thread in hand. They're members of the African American Quilt Circle of San ...

Dot Guthrie and Charles Whitesides stand next to the Gaston County Business Pioneers Quilt on display at the African American Museum of History & Culture at Loray Mill in Gastonia Tuesday afternoon, ...