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 ...

PHILADELPHIA — Until I visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art last month, I’d never heard of Gee’s Bend quilts, which Black women in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, started stitching in the 1800s. I’m hazy about ...

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 ...

A production of the play Gee's Bend is on stage at the Aurora Fox Arts Center. Gee's Bend tells the story of a family of quilters from the isolated town of Gee's Bend, Alabama as they face the ...

When Adidas tapped the Quilters of Gee’s Bend for its 2025 Honoring Black Excellence campaign, the women behind the iconic quilts were stunned — not because their work lacked value, but because the ...

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 ...

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 ...

BOYKIN, Ala. (WIAT) — The third annual Airing of the Quilts Festival in Gee’s Bend is set for this Saturday. The festival will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Gee’s Bend Welcome Center in ...

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“Gee’s Bend,” a touching, inspirational play by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder, based on true events – with snippets of gospel music as a bonus – has opened in the Paul Robeson Theatre, directed by Thomas W ...

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 ...