Several handmade quilts were spread atop white folding tables at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, each waiting to be examined. Two women wearing cotton gloves hovered over them, ...

The Saint Louis Art Museum recently announced the acquisition of “Pine Burr Quilt,” a colorful textile created in 1995 by artist Lucy Mingo in the rural community of Gee’s Bend, Alabama. The quilt was ...

African Americans carried many things with them when fleeing the South’s oppression and poverty in the middle of the 20th Century – a movement of millions called the Second Great Migration. Among the ...

The federal government revoked $460,000 in federal funding to a Berkeley, Calif., museum housing historic African-American quilts. The funds were to be used to conserve the quilts. The Berkeley Art ...

The Saint Louis Art Museum recently held a celebration of African-American quilts, which was part recognition of local quilt historian Cuesta Benberry and part education seminar on the subject. The ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Quilts have been around for centuries, and in black history, they have strong symbolism. “Anytime we can uplift the arts and show diverse voices and tell our American ...

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, or BAMPFA, collaborated with local artists to showcase 20th-century African American quilts in its new exhibition. The exhibit, titled “Routed West: ...

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) is home to one of the world's largest collections of African-American quilts — some 3,000 of them. Bequeathed to the museum in 2019 by the ...

Portraits of the Resistance and Resilience Exhibition line the wall at The Arts Center in Carrboro on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. King, a member of the church’s arts ministry, recognized that Veasey shared ...

Standing on opposite sides of a roughly 9-by-12-foot table in a work room at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Collection Specialist Laura Hansen wears gloves. Joining to ...