It’s a story of American history. African American history. Women’s history. Civil rights history. Art history. It’s a story of capture and enslavement. Resilience and survival. Poverty and Jim Crow.

Across the Alabama River from Camden, tucked into a secluded corner of Wilcox County, lives a community with history as rich as the soil it was built upon. With a population of just over 500 people, ...

Over the past two decades, Gee’s Bend quilts have captured the public’s imagination with their kaleidoscopic colors and their daring geometric patterns. The groundbreaking art practice was cultivated ...

The Spencertown Academy and Austerlitz Historical Society Church, in Columbia County, N.Y., are presenting an exhibition of the famous Gee’s Bend quilts. Gee's Bend quilt exhibition, on display ...

While a video of quilters singing Negro spirituals softly plays in the background, the coal-black and fire-engine red quilt made from scraps of cotton and corduroy hangs still at the Missouri History ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The Freedom Quilting Bee Legacy is excited to announce the Airing of the Quilts Festival Awareness Tour, a three-city event series designed to celebrate the artistry and history ...

SPENCERTOWN, N.Y. — What began as a method of survival in a remote Alabama community has evolved into some of the most distinctive textile art in the country — and now, it’s on view at the Spencertown ...

HUNTSVILLE, AL -- It was plates of fried chicken, pinto beans, collard greens and yams; the food of the day. It was quilts stitched, in part, from swatches of clothing that were outdated and outgrown.

Souls Grown Deep has announced that the annual Gee's Bend Airing of the Quilts Festival will take place on Saturday, October 12, accompanied by the unveiling of a new addition to the Gee's Bend ...