The 131 quilts were assembled by Roland Freeman, a prominent photographer and documentarian of 20th-century Black culture.
Quilts
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The Origins of Indigo, That Bluest Blue
While indigo’s etymology identifies it as a “product of India,” it has a long history.
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The Influential Quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend Are Now on Etsy
Each shop features the quilter’s story and their array of offerings, with prices on works that range from $27 to $5,500 per piece.
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The Subversive Power of Quilting
As Radical Tradition affirms, the act of creating whole cloth from scraps is not just a matter of making ends meet, but an empowering act of reclamation.
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In His New Works, Sanford Biggers Finds a Future Ethnography
In his new series, the artist has created 60 works created directly on or made from pre-1900 antique quilts.
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Largest Private Collection of African American Quilts Donated to a Berkeley Museum
The estate of art scholar and collector Eli Leon donated nearly 3,000 quilts to the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
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Tantalizing Quilts Woven with Poetic, Political Messages
The artists in Piecework embed intriguing, coded messages into their quilts.
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The Common Threads Between Female Quilters and Abstract Expressionists
At one time or other these women’s craft was either considered lowbrow or was measured against the work of male contemporaries.
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An Important Archive of New York Quilt History Is Being Digitized
The American Folk Art Museum is digitizing the New York Quilt Project, an archive of over 6,000 quilts and their histories.
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The Wartime Quilts Made by Men from Military Uniforms
The American Folk Art Museum in New York is exhibiting wartime quilts made by British soldiers from their uniforms in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Quilting a Patchwork of Latin American and Caribbean Identity
There is nothing about Sylvia Hernandez’s colorful quilts that is posturing, nor is the work ingratiating, playing up hackneyed tokens of Hispanic heritage.
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Stitching Oakland’s History into Painterly Quilts
Last year, the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland (AAQGO) — a group of about 80 women who meet monthly at senior centers amid sheafs of fabric and spools of colorful thread — embarked on an ambitious project: They would create narrative quilts that told the complex social, political, and cultural history of their California city.