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Artist Bisa Butler has been called a modern-day Griot. But instead of using words to tell stories, she uses stitches and cloth. Her quilts have graced the covers of magazines, and she created the ...

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

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, ...

Inside the maximum security prison in Licking, Missouri, a group of men spend eight hours a day, five days a week, sewing quilts for local foster kids. "They may not be going home" from prison, says ...

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 ...

On a Sunday morning in February, Michael C. Thorpe crouches in his mother’s living room with a mallet, hammering together the corners of a massive wooden frame. A YouTube video of Thelonious Monk ...

The 50th woman to fly into space has paid tribute to the first woman and first American woman to do so with a pair of original works celebrating the first 60 years of women in space. Former NASA ...

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 ...

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