Eli Leon's game-changing African American quilt donation stuns in "Routed West" at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ...

To many Americans, quilts are valued only for their practicality – they keep us warm. But in African American culture, quilts tell stories of sadness, love and violence. Students explored this ...

UC Berkeley Art Museum was recently gifted the world’s largest collection of this type of art, all of it created by black women. Much like certain perspectives have historically been shut out from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

During the short dark days, many fight the urge to hide under the covers. An exhibition of quilts, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, could provide needed comfort.

A quilt commemorating African-American history in Dauphin County debuted at Fort Hunter Day Sunday. It was created by the African American Quilters Gathering of Harrisburg, in collaboration with local ...

MORRISTOWN (WATE) – The African American Quilt Conference of Appalachia is being held in Morristown next month to highlight the cultural significance of quilting and quilt preservation in the African ...

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, ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Like any jazz artist, the ability to adapt and improvise is a welcome skill. For the people in the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland, that skill reconciles years of ...