Souls Grown Deep has announced that the annual Gee's Bend Airing of the Quilts Festival will take place on Saturday, October 12, accompanied by the unveiling of a new addition to the Gee's Bend ...

While a video of quilters singing Negro spirituals softly plays in the background, the coal-black and fire-engine red quilt made from scraps of cotton and corduroy hangs still at the Missouri History ...

Now a second exhibition, "Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt," has been organized by the MFAH and the Tinwood Alliance. The show, which opened in June, features newly discovered quilts from the ...

When I mentioned to a friend that I was writing about quilts, he rolled his eyes and said, “Oh, please, you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all.” It’s a common reaction, and I know a lot of people feel ...

An authentic Gee's Bend quilt typically costs anywhere from $500 to $13,000, but thanks to a new, nationwide collaboration with Target, interested buyers have a few more attainable options to support ...

SPENCERTOWN, N.Y. — What began as a method of survival in a remote Alabama community has evolved into some of the most distinctive textile art in the country — and now, it’s on view at the Spencertown ...

It’s been a Gee’s Bend spring here in Denver: The Denver Center Theatre Company toasted the multi-generational Alabama quilt-making community with a theatrical stage bow earlier this year, and the ...

Gee’s Bend is known as living history due to the region’s generations of Black female quilters. The quilts, initially created for comfort and warmth, have become a symbol of Black survival and civil ...

A summer show in Columbia County features the bold and expressive designs crafted by the next generation of quilting artists from Gee’s Bend. Spread out over two sites, the show brings together more ...

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 ...

The Spencertown Academy and Austerlitz Historical Society Church, in Columbia County, N.Y., are presenting an exhibition of the famous Gee’s Bend quilts. Gee's Bend quilt exhibition, on display ...