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From the Antebellum South to the Civil Rights Movement, Black American Women Have Long Told Their Stories Through Quilts
In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this ...
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Frieda Anderson
“I started expanding my own designs and I haven't looked back.” “When I first started making quilts, I started making traditional quilts, but very early on I realized that I needed to make ...
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Always There: The African American Presence in American Quilts
The Kentucky Quilt Project, Inc.: Louisville, 1992. A selection of quilts and with chapters that include slave-made products, free blacks in antebellum America, late nineteenth century, and ...
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'The reception has blown my mind': There's a new quilting shop in downtown Howell
Just weeks after Joann Fabrics announced the closure of all the brand's stores, a new(ish) quilting supplies store has opened ...
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premiered on PBS March 2007
The Art of Quilting honors America’s contemporary art quilters by visiting ... Visit the site» View selections from the 100 most acclaimed quilts of the 20th century, and travel across America ...
Worth the Drive: National Quilt Museum in Paducah is home to America's finest quilts
Paducah's former Mayor Gerry Montgomery proclaimed Paducah "Quilt City USA," and for good reason. The small city on the shore ...
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We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists
Myrah Brown Green, In My Akwabaa Form, 2000, cotton fabric and cotton batt, 95 × 86 in. (241.3 × 218.4 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Fleur S ...
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Oliver Art Center honors Black History Month with special exhibit
F RANKFORT — In observance of Black History Month, the Oliver Art Center will present “Piece Work: An Exhibition of Contemporary Gee’s Bend Quilts” in its Fisher Room Gallery Feb. 14 ...