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.

Visitors to Gee’s Bend will now have a new way to sample the sights and sounds of the area’s world-renowned artists. Willie Quill’s Quilt Studio & Pantry will open Saturday, July 18, from 11 a.m. to 5 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For generations, the women of Gee's Bend have stitched together scraps of fabric into something far more lasting than cloth alone.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...