Bisa Butler quilts vibrant portraits that honor Black beauty, history, activism, memory, and identity into fabric.

To paraphrase writer Janet Malcolm, a quilt becomes something else entirely when it’s removed from its cozy setting and hung on a big white gallery wall. Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston ...

Olivia Joseph can spot the stories in the stitches in their work as a quilt research fellow for the Mingei International Museum at Balboa Park. The fabrics, the patterns, the designs all reveal ...

The evening was billed as, “An Evening of Soul,” and you immediately felt a soulful energy fill the room when the Broadway Housing Communities (BHC) annual gala kicked off with a rousing performance ...

Newark, New Jersey — Bisa Butler's artwork has a way of stopping people in their tracks. Her life-size portraits look like they're from the strokes of a painter's brush — but Butler is a quiltmaker, ...

Click here for the original audio and to read more. Bisa Butler weaves Black history, the Black diaspora and Black life into her quilted portraits. She uses fabric with bright colors to "paint" the ...

A piece by artist Esther Mahlangu, titled “Untitled” (far right), part of the coming exhibit To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection at EL Espacio 23 Space in Miami ...

Bold African faces stare directly at viewers. They are painted and mixed media portraits of people from Ghana’s capital, Accra, a sister city to Columbus since 2015. In the first Columbus Museum of ...

It’s supremely ironic that Will McCarthy’s article “The Frontier Midwife” (July/August 2023) bemoaning the lack of recognition accorded Anna Pierce for her research on “milk sickness” almost skips ...