…Bisa Butler’s monumental quilt Don’t Tread on Me, God Damn, Let’s Go! — The Harlem Hell Fighters brings together an historical event with African American quilting traditions in a compelling…
Read More…Ringgold’s painting, printmaking, sculpture, quilting, writing, and documented activism. With content as American as apple pie and star spangled flags– and especially the violent beginnings to the civil rights era–…
Read More…blue stitched by Essie Bendolph Pettway, a member of the historic Gee’s Bend quilting community, and published by Paulson Fontaine Press in Berkeley, California. Michael Kimmelman of the New…
Read More…The large ceramic tiles are hung salon style, their graphic shapes referencing quilting, game boards, color-field painting, and barns that nod to Ellinger’s tobacco barn paintings. Their surfaces are thick,…
Read More…receive mention. Tanekeya Word, “tender: a sisterhood anthem (B-side), fig. 006, 2/7.” 22×30, linocut, relief ink, hand quilting on 280 gsm BFK Rives. (2021). Courtesy the artist and Claire Oliver…
Read More…power. Their format entangles the conventionalized emblems of history and patriotism with the domestic craft of quilting, the masculine pursuit of territory and power with a feminine tradition of healing….
Read More…This special retrospective brings together works from Robinson’s childhood to adulthood, highlighting all the in-betweens of a multidisciplinary creative master of drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, doll making/puppetry, quilting, and writing….
Read More…Fabric Workshop. And they introduced her to things like quilting. She worked with Moe Brooker and with Betye Saar, and in both cases. She was working on quilts that they…
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