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

Her efforts included doing extensive genealogical research and trying varied outreach methods, even cold calling the quiltmakers' relatives.

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. — The 51st annual Black Hills Quilt Show runs through Saturday in the Rushmore Room at the Monument. More ...

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 ...