Celebrating National Quilting ... to art, strict societal norms mandating conformity and discouraging individual expression, could create works that foreshadowed some abstract modern artists ...

The abstract patterns and styles ... The New York Times has called these quilts “some of the most miraculous works of modern art America has produced,” and they still stand as parts of ...

A new exhibit brings to light the brilliant, bold and dynamic quilts ... abstract painters than it is with textile-making," says Alvia Wardlaw, curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the ...

Routed West” expands on a previous display of Black diaspora works from the 1940-to-1970 Second Migration period.

Karen Cooper explains the modifications a modern quilter made to a classic pattern in ... much like modern art. “We still have the hearts of quilters, we still care about quilts,” Cooper ...

Following a centuries-long tradition of narrative and social commentary quilts, such as those promoting abolitionism, modern ... pattern, such as one called log cabin, or in abstract designs ...

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art has announced a new exhibit, Mid-Century Modern Astro-Futurism, presented by the South Sarasota Modern Quilt Guild. The exhibition will be on view at ...