The exhibition “Quilts of Gee’s Bend,” which appeared at the High Museum of Art in 2006, featured 60 colorful, geometrically designed quilts hand-stitched by the direct descendants of slaves living in ...

Cross-stitched images of racial violence victims over the decades can be seen on quilts at Mississippi's Jackson State University as a part of the Stitch Their Names Memorial Project. A group of about ...

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 ...

It was inevitable that Deborah Hyde, who won this year's Handi Quilter Best of Show Award for the International Quilt Festival, would become a quilter. Always interested in art and portrait drawing, ...

Riche’ Richardson was raised by a close-knit Montgomery family, full of hard workers. Their lives, she said, were busy. In the midst of working as educators and nurses and construction workers, they ...

Each of the portraits is a quilted collage made out of pieces of cloth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The 50th woman to fly ...