Through collaboration with A Beautiful Message, a Central Texas Art Program, and Art Center Waco, an art exhibit celebrating ...

On June 19, or Juneteenth as it's been termed, the monumental end to slavery in the United States is celebrated. Throughout history, countless enslaved individuals sought freedom guided by the wisdom ...

Even after losing more than $260,000 in federal support for its latest exhibition, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive isn’t backing down. “We will persist. We will continue,” BAMPFA ...

Her efforts included doing extensive genealogical research and trying varied outreach methods, even cold calling the quiltmakers' relatives.

There is a backstory and cultural connection behind African American cloth dolls ... busy textiles that showed scenes from Impressionist art and Japanese-inspired designs, along with mud and kente ...

Standing on opposite sides of a roughly 9-by-12-foot table in a work room at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific ... Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California.” ...

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 ...

While still recovering from the economic devastation of the Great Depression, Americans were watching ... a return to opulence after wartime fabric rations. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY) A later gallery ...

Among the 150 black artists of African or American descent highlighted ... In this case it has influenced the fabric of postmodern art forever.” Stories like this require a lot of delving ...

For two years in a row, during the month of February, I’ve had dreams about Frederick Douglass. Last year, the reason was clear. My family knows I love ― like, really love ― February ...