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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 It was quilts stitched, in part, from swatches of clothing that were outdated and outgrown.

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, ...

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 ...

In a review of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s landmark 2002 exhibition of quilts from Gee’s Bend, New York Times critic Michael Kimmelman described the textiles as “some of the most miraculous ...