Smithsonian Magazine24d
From the Antebellum South to the Civil Rights Movement, Black American Women Have Long Told Their Stories Through Quilts
In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this ...
PBS5y
premiered on PBS March 2007
The Art of Quilting honors America’s contemporary art quilters by visiting art quilt exhibitions across the country and through personal interviews with nationally and internationally noted ...
PBS2y
Frieda Anderson
“I started expanding my own designs and I haven't looked back.” “When I first started making quilts, I started making traditional quilts, but very early on I realized that I needed to make ...
Quilt show at Queeny Park highlights Route 66 and more
Around 60 quilters contributed the 66 Route 66 quilts, with a handful making more than one. Richards made two: One depicts ...
A stitch within the fabric of time: A look at the quilting scene in Israel
I recently chanced to hear of a quilting endeavor which crossed the oceans to bring comfort and express solidarity with Israel and the evacuees of Kibbutz Be’eri during the current crisis.
insider.si.edu27d
We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists
Myrah Brown Green, In My Akwabaa Form, 2000, cotton fabric and cotton batt, 95 × 86 in. (241.3 × 218.4 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Fleur S ...
Worth the Drive: National Quilt Museum in Paducah is home to America's finest quilts
Paducah's former Mayor Gerry Montgomery proclaimed Paducah "Quilt City USA," and for good reason. The small city on the shore ...
The Art Newspaper27d
Gee’s Bend quiltmakers, ‘degenerate’ art in Paris, and Mel Bochner remembered—podcast
The Quilts of Gee’s Bend at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), about the history of quiltmaking in this small part of Alabama, and the growing recognition of its artistic importance.