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

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

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive was about to launch an exhibition of historic quilts, when federal funding ...

The work of the African American quilters Laverne Brackens and Sherry Byrd, who continue the thread of the family tradition, ...

More than 100 beautiful, fascinating quilts of widely varied styles made primarily by African American women with Bay Area ...

quilting is one of the many art forms emerging from this rich heritage.” Imani Bashir, “How Quilts Became a Canvas for Black American Artists to Preserve History” As the winter chill sets in ...

According to the National Gallery of Art, unlike the organized, precise patterns that many quilters made from Dutch and English designs, African American quilts were often raw and vibrant. They were ...

More than 100 works by 80 quilters, many of whom emigrated to the East Bay from the American South in the 1900s, are on exhibit in Berkeley starting June 8.

For the people in the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland, that skill reconciles years of history and encourages the bridge between function and artistry. "With African American quilts ...

Importantly, this year’s exhibit expands the art form’s visibility and geographic ... including members of the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland. Yau says in an interview that while ...

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is about to launch an exhibition of historic quilts from a collection that's billed as "one of its kind". But it just lost $260k of federal funding ...