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DIY: How to craft African quilts

West African quilts are a beautiful blend of culture and art, famous for their vibrant colors and intricate patterns ...
Morning Call PA

AFRICAN-AMERICAN QUILTS ‘WHOOP’ WITH COLOR

Pecolia Warner of Yazoo City, Miss., could give you a mood for every color she quilted. White, she once explained, is for peace. Yellow expresses love. Brass means trouble, mainly because it can turn ...
The Baltimore Sun

Quilts bind old, new customs Tradition: Quilting remains a means for recording African-American history, but is attracting younger women who use technology and modern designs.

Time was when you could take one look at an African-American quilt and see your whole family. You saw grandpa’s necktie. You saw the baby’s old pajamas, with the faded red and blue balloons, and the ...
Yahoo

This Quilt Tells the Story of How African Americans Helped Shape American Cuisine

Renowned author and scholar Dr. Jessica B. Harris has dedicated her career to the study of foods across the African Diaspora. With the opening of African/American: Making the Nation's Table, an ...
Richmond

African-American quilts celebrate Black History Month at Colonial Williamsburg

Bright colors, unexpected combinations of fabrics and asymmetrical patterns are attracting new attention to African-American quilts in an exhibit that opened Saturday at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller ...
East Bay Times

Berkeley museum names curator for African American quilts

When good fortune arrives, it’s always best to have talent on tap to take care of it. Dr. Elaine Yau’s appointment as BAMPFA’s first associate curator for the Eli Leon Living Trust Collection of ...
Yakima Herald-Republic

Yakima's African American family quilts to be part of documentation project

Robert Trimble was a young man when his mother gave him a crocheted bedspread she had kept for years in an old trunk at the foot of her bed. Her grandmother, Winnie Moore, made the cotton bedspread, ...
The Lantern

African American quilts reveal culture in stories

To many Americans, quilts are valued only for their practicality – they keep us warm. But in African American culture, quilts tell stories of sadness, love and violence. Students explored this ...
Fast Company

A museum’s new collection celebrates the art of African American quilting

Much like certain perspectives have historically been shut out from the mainstream, certain art forms have, too. Quilts are one such medium, often pushed outside of the traditional fine art world and ...
Chicago Tribune

African-Americans’ experiences enriched quilt history

Quiltmaking among African-Americans has a richly textured history. In a new book called “Black Threads: An African American Quilting Sourcebook” (MacFarland & Co., 260 pages, $38.50), author Kyra E.
ABC7 San Francisco

African American Quilt Guild of Oakland is threading the needle between art and tradition

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Like any jazz artist, the ability to adapt and improvise is a welcome skill. For the people in the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland, that skill reconciles years of ...