The stories she refers to are about intricate quilts hung from fences, or around homes to indicate to slaves that a house was a safe one. According to the National Gallery of Art, unlike the organized ...

More than 100 beautiful, fascinating quilts of widely varied styles made primarily by African American women with Bay Area ties, and many of the stories behind them, comprise a compelling new ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Quilts have been around for centuries, and in black history, they have strong symbolism. “Anytime ...

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

Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California, the second BAMPFA exhibition drawn from the Leon collection, after the transcendent Rosie Lee Tompkins show in 2020, demonstrates ...

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

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

And for now, I want to share with you our region’s exciting African-American quilting traditions as I encountered them in the early 1980s, when I did the fieldwork that produced these photos.

UC Berkeley art museum to exhibit 20th century African American quilts Opening June 8, ‘Routed West’ expands on previous display of Black diaspora works from Second Great Migration period ...

The National Quilt Collection at the National Museum of American History reveals how a useful practice can represent artistic, cultural, and historic storytelling. A significant number of American ...

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 quilts. The funds were to be used to conserve the quilts.