Two centuries later, a number of women in Oakland are recreating the Underground Railroad quilt. It’s one of the annual ...

Routed West” expands on a previous display of Black diaspora works from the 1940-to-1970 Second Migration period.

“Her sewing box and she had a trunk where she kept all her fabric ... to the National Gallery of Art, unlike the organized, precise patterns that many quilters made from Dutch and English designs, ...

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

Artist Stephen Hamilton invokes a Yoruba proverb when he talks about his work: “We greet the cloth before we greet the person ...

Thirty-one quilts hang like tapestries at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, weaving history with art. Each shows ... careful threads and colorful fabric. "Cut, measured ...

Featuring nearly 50 quilts and coverlets from the MFA Boston’s textile collection, the exhibition explores the medium’s ...

The commitment could transform the DIA into a true national power when it comes to collecting, exhibiting, studying and interpreting African-American art. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily ...

He doesn't understand that this is still an African-American community." Over the years, the gallery served as a gathering spot for art lovers who never saw their own reflections in museums - and ...

The model, Morton says, symbolizes what he believes is missing in fine art: the fair representation of black people. Artists say African Americans are absent from historical art collections in ...