Brilliantly colored and full of visual drama, Bisa Butler’s larger-than-life sized quilted portraits are nearly indistinguishable from paintings. Creating works that have appeared on the cover of Time ...
Artist Bisa Butler has been called a modern-day Griot. But instead of using words to tell stories, she uses stitches and cloth. Her quilts have graced the covers of magazines, and she created the ...
The exhibition “Quilts of Gee’s Bend,” which appeared at the High Museum of Art in 2006, featured 60 colorful, geometrically designed quilts hand-stitched by the direct descendants of slaves living in ...
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Her art quilt, titled "Best Friend," depicts Drew through raw-edged fused appliqué and free-motion stitching. It is one of dozens juried into last year's "It's Raining Cats and Dogs" exhibit. Her ...
On a hot August afternoon, a group of prison reform advocates and families of incarcerated people flocked to a Chicago gallery space for an unusual task: quilting. But this isn’t your average ...