Sarah Spencer creates abstract art quilts inspired by street art, contemporary music, and the spirit of nonconformity. Spencer's piece, "All Seeing Eye," is a circular quilt made using free-motion ...

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

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 ...

They range from traditional bed and wall quilts to art and abstract ones. The exhibit runs through Nov. 30. The gallery is open Monday through Saturday from 10 to 4 pm. General admission into the ...

These quilts, which were made because of the need for warmth in the 1800′s, turned into an art form. The abstract patterns and styles, unique compared to many other styles of American quilting ...

abstract design in American quilts impacted quiltmaking in numerous ways: helping to create a market for antique and contemporary quilts and promoting quilts as a women’s art form and as ...

In the 1990s, an art collector saw the qualities of abstract art in the quilt designs. This led to shows in major museums across the country. The recognition helped put Gee's Bend on the map.

Working from a gritty loft in Lower Manhattan in the late 1950s, she made abstract paintings on quilts that brought a fine-art sensibility to a folk art. By Alex Williams Ann Wilson, a painter who ...

a fad called "crazy quilting" took off, sewing abstract shapes together randomly and embellished with embroidered motifs? Those "crazies" were the predecessor to the art quilt movement that ...