WBUR: In two fall art exhibits, quilts offer more than just warmth
The quilts on display Friday and Saturday at the McClung Park Indoor Pavilion weren't simple crafts -- they were art. The Missouri River Quilt Guild's annual Spring Into Quilts expo featured more than ...
Rambling River Art Quilters is bringing an exhibit of colorful and intricate art quilts to the Historical Society of Lee’s Summit Museum. The group includes several area women from Lee’s Summit and ...
Fiber artist Irene Roderick, who has two art quilts in Schweinfurth Art Center’s “Quilts=Art=Quilts 2022″ exhibition, created a series of “Guardian” quilts to keep her company during the years of ...
Self-taught Deborah Schwartzman’s early quilts were full-size and functional. Later, she began to use the quilt as a medium for self expression. Her quilts have traveled to exhibits throughout the ...
“Translating Nature Into Fabric,” an exhibit of art quilts by Ellen Fisher, will be on display at the Nashua Public Library through Feb. 26. Fisher prints or dyes most of the fabrics herself, using ...
Many artworks in this year’s Quilts=Art=Quilts exhibition at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn tell a story. The story that Lena Meszaros tells in her piece, “Heritage,” is intensely personal. Her ...
After six years, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) is finally shining a spotlight on the transformative gift of over 3,000 African American quilts it received from the late ...
National Geographic news: This Black artist’s vibrant quilts inspired generations of U.S. artisans
Only two of Harriet Powers’s 19th-century quilts survive today, but their dynamism—and spiritual power—left their mark on American art. This undated photograph of Harriet Powers is the only confirmed ...