The African American Quilt Circle of San Antonio is preserving personal, political, and historical narratives through the ancestral practice of quiltmaking. “There’s a determination not to tell the ...

Lately, Nancy Rolland’s been having flashbacks: It’s an arid Oklahoma afternoon. From left, Kepsey Fixico and Faye Baker, both of the Muskogee Creek Nation, and Marilyn Thunder Hawk, of the Sicangu ...

SAN ANTONIO — Every second Saturday of the month at the Carver Library, you'll find a group of women with needles and thread in hand. They're members of the African American Quilt Circle of San ...

WAYNESBORO As Bertha, Ruth and Florence Showalter bend over a new quilting project on its table-length frame, the handiwork of generations of Showalters -- and Heatwoles, Hostetters and other women of ...

Evanston artist Melissa Blount held a quilt-making session Wednesday to honor the lives of black women and girls lost to interpersonal violence. Held at the Segal Visitors Center with over 100 in ...

Some quilting gatherings are expanding beyond fabric and thread by incorporating shared cooking activities, inspired by traditions of communal craft and dining. Seasonal quilt projects are paired with ...

Each Wednesday morning for the past 30 years, the women have been sitting in a circle, facing each other, sharing the silence. Their bodies are like statues, except for the tiny wavelike motions they ...