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 ...

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, or BAMPFA, collaborated with local artists to showcase 20th-century African ...

According to the National Gallery of Art, unlike the organized, precise patterns that many quilters made from Dutch and English designs, African American quilts were often raw and vibrant. They were ...

WWII-era, they could make the difference between sleeping or freezing for the Black families who moved out of the South ...

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive was about to launch an exhibition of historic quilts, when federal funding ...

The federal government revoked $460,000 in federal funding to a Berkeley, Calif., museum housing historic African-American ...

The “we” was myself and Worth Long, an African-American folklorist who acted ... more contrasty colors than the majority of quilts made by European-descended quilters. Strict symmetry and ...

Importantly, this year’s exhibit expands the art form’s visibility and geographic range with quilts made in the South ... including members of the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland.

A significant number of American quilts can be found in the collections ... American History and Culture Pink and yellow pinwheel quilt made by Elizabeth Salter Smith National Museum of African ...

museum housing historic African-American quilts. The funds were to be used ... to the 1860s and tell the stories of the people who made them. They were bequeathed to the museum in 2019 by a ...