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 ...

Improvisational quilts, or those with free-form patterns, are an old and ongoing tradition in African American quilting. They represent a practical need for warmth, but, in the early and mid-twentieth ...

Over the past six years, the High has more than quintupled its holdings of quilts made by Black women—many of which are on view in this fascinating but approachable show. A quilt by an unidentified ...

Straight out of Gee's Bend, where the Alabama River in a looping turn isolates a small peninsula of farmland, come the Afrocentric quilts that leave all others in their wake. The intricate designs of ...