It was inevitable that Deborah Hyde, who won this year's Handi Quilter Best of Show Award for the International Quilt Festival, would become a quilter. Always interested in art and portrait drawing, ...
Riche’ Richardson was raised by a close-knit Montgomery family, full of hard workers. Their lives, she said, were busy. In the midst of working as educators and nurses and construction workers, they ...
The exhibition “Quilts of Gee’s Bend,” which appeared at the High Museum of Art in 2006, featured 60 colorful, geometrically designed quilts hand-stitched by the direct descendants of slaves living in ...
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NORWALK — Portraits quilted from minute pieces of fabric hang from the walls of the Sidewalk Gallery on South Main Street. In the likeness of Barack Obama, a yellow fabric printed with African lips ...
Brilliantly colored and full of visual drama, Bisa Butler’s larger-than-life sized quilted portraits are nearly indistinguishable from paintings. Creating works that have appeared on the cover of Time ...