WWII-era, they could make the difference between sleeping or freezing for the Black families who moved out of the South ...

Descendants of a Spartanburg County icon share the history of their family through quilt-making in a new book, "Mary Black's Family Quilts: Memory and Meaning in Everyday Life." The family worked ...

The work of the African American quilters Laverne Brackens and Sherry Byrd, who continue the thread of the family tradition, ...

Butler's specialty is fabric, specifically quilts. And the bold images of Black ... "I describe my artwork as a quilted photo album of a Black family. But it's the Black diaspora family," says ...

"To be a part of black ... and family dinners with the neighbors. Veronica said she didn't realize until she was older that she and her family were poor. She remembers vividly how the quilt ...

So they went to their permanent collection of more than 200 vintage quilts, created by members of The Natural State's rural black communities ... of the same family. Quilts by a few men.

Her beautiful tribute to cruelty took its place Sunday amid nearly 60 other quilts, most sewn in bright ... s “Strange Fruit,” with its all-black background, appears not to be a patchwork ...

"I describe my artwork as a quilted photo album of a Black family. But it's the ... extraordinary The intricacy of the quilts — the billowy dresses for four little girls, the layered fabrics that make ...

The artist's life-size images explode with color and are inspired by iconic black ... of the quilts — the billowy dresses for four little girls, the layered fabrics that make up a background ...