Put some traditional American artwork on your desktop with quilts from the artists at Gee’s Bend. Women from Gee’s Bend, 2005 ONB Magic City Art Connection ...

As a child, Loretta Pettway Bennett watched her grandmother, mother and aunts make quilts. She made her first one at age 12. That’s how a lot of girls grew up in Gee’s Bend, Alabama. They were taught ...

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 ...

All my life I've heard of the Gee's Bend quilts. Growing up in Alabama, it's hard to miss hearing about the famous artistic and cultural trademarks in the state – FAME studios in Muscle Shoals, Harper ...

-- Tuscaloosa's Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum will open a new exhibit next week featuring the work of the acclaimed Gee's Bend quiltmakers. "Along the Alabama River, the Quilts of ...

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.

HERE IN SEABROOK TOILET. WMUR NEWS 9. FIVE QUOTES FROM THE WELL-KNOWN GEE’S BEND QUILTERS ARE NOW ON DISPLAY AT THE COURIER ART MUSEUM IN MANCHESTER. THE QUILTS WERE MADE IN A SMALL BLACK COMMUNITY IN ...

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 ...

New Yorkers who missed The Quilts of Gee’s Bend, an exhibition seen at the Whitney Museum of American Art during New Yorkers who missed The Quilts of Gee’s Bend, an exhibition seen at the Whitney ...

One of the potential hazards of loving art is the tendency to see it as something separate from everyday life—a thing apart, with no ability to function practically beyond what it stirs in us ...

Lauren Ro is interested in baby gear (she’s a new mom) and the ins-and-outs of decorating a home. Prior to the Strategist, she was a writer at Curbed, and before that was Wes Anderson’s assistant.