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Bisa Butler, Genevieve Hanson for the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery.
Bisa Butler: The World Is Yours

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Installation view, Bisa Butler: Materfamilias, Gordon Parks Foundation. Works: Praise God, 2014, Wedding Portrait, 2001, Colored Entrance (after Department Store, Mobile, Alabama by Gordon Parks, 1956), 2023
Bisa Butler on the Magic of Quilting

The Gordon Parks Foundation recently opened Bisa Butler: Materfamilias…

Grace Zimiga, Sundance Star, 1968-1980. Cotton, muslin, and thread, 61.1 x 88.8 in. (155.3 x 225.7 cm.), National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.
Evolving Perspectives on Quilts as Folk Art

Folk art reflects the stories of survival and heritage among often underrepresented peoples. Its distinction as being a separate entity from fine art was…

Exhibition view featuring The Wake and Resurrection of the Bicentennial Negro (1975–89). 
“Faith Ringgold: American People” Finally Pays the Artist Her Dues
The New Museum’s retrospective of Faith Ringgold seems especially timely. The exhibition reveals how Ringgold’s work sees race not only as a matter of identity politics, but also as foundational to U…
Girl in blue dress in front of black and white polka dots and giant orange slices
Bisa Butler Solo Show to Reopen with Art Institute of Chicago

CHICAGO – The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to announce that its doors will reopen on February 11.Bisa Butler: Portraits, which opened last…

Laura Clark's Silk Patchwork Table Cover, 1855 - 1885
National Museum of American History Displays Rare Luxury 19th-Century Silk Quilts
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will display nine silk quilts from the national collection along with related needlework artifacts dating from the late 19th into the early 20th…