Her installation captures the moment Union troops reached Galveston's shores while honoring the individual stories of the United States Colored Troops who carried freedom's message.

It was Paris in 1730, and the printed cotton fabrics known as toiles peintes or indiennes—in English, calicoes, chintzes, or muslins—had been illegal since 1686.

Toile de Jouy often consists of white or off-white cotton fabric printed with single-color bucolic scenes—but there’s more to it than that. In fact, the majority of Oberkampf’s production ...