Butler's specialty is fabric, specifically quilts. And the bold images of Black people she stitches together, using textiles like paint in an explosion of color, is quilting transformed.

Ms. Butler, who held a solo show at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021, has reached heights not seen for a fabric artist since ... She then blows up a black and white version of the photograph ...

These are several images captured in the fabrics and stitches of quilt artist ... small blue and green birds flying around a birdhouse, and a black-and-white bird perching on an open sunflower.

Creating works that have appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, and sold at auction for up to $75,000, Butler is taking quilting into ... are often based on black-and-white photographs of ...