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 ...

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 ...

On May 5, she displays the quilt she stitched in memory of his brother, killed seven years later. The grieving mother is among nine black quilters profiled in ... against the thematic background of ...

“I can’t breathe” is quilted over and over again, in white block letters on a black background ... a deep connection to her family’s past. Her quilts have been controversial from the ...

"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 ...

Folklorist Gladys-Marie Fry would sit in front of that quilt in reverie. “Who was Harriet?” she wondered. “What was her history?” (This professor's persistence gave birth to Black History ...

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.

"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 ...

Black Lives Are Celebrated In Bisa Butler's Extraordinary, Technicolor Quilts At the top of the Grand ... as a quilted photo album of a Black family. But it's the Black diaspora family," says ...