Artist Bisa Butler has been called a modern-day Griot. But instead of using words to tell stories, she uses stitches and cloth. Her quilts have graced the covers of magazines, and she created the ...

The quilt hanging on the wall is a portrait of a cat. Peaches is aptly named, as her coloring brings the fruit to mind. Her eyes are expressive, and as one gets closer to examine the quilt it becomes ...

Brilliantly colored and full of visual drama, Bisa Butler’s larger-than-life sized quilted portraits are nearly indistinguishable from paintings. Creating works that have appeared on the cover of Time ...

Quilts, says Wanda Eash, "are a language of love." "They represent comfort and warmth. They connect people across the generations, along with the memories of the people who made them." But ...

Bisa Butler’s quilted portraits are redefining what is accepted and excepted within the walls of art museums. Butler‘s unmistakable visuals forever obliterate any notion of quilting merely as “craft.” ...

While the fashion industry continues to take a hit as one that contributes heavily to the pollution of the planet, one Brooklyn-based artist is focused on lessening that impact by repurposing fabrics ...

Portrait Society Gallery, 207 E. Buffalo St., begins a two-week exhibit of work by Milwaukee artist Rosemary Ollison with a private event Monday. The exhibit will include new quilts that Ollison has ...

Free spirit fabric art using raw edge appliqué makes beautifully crafted fabric portraits. Fiber artist Lola Jenkins explains her free spirit approach to fabric art using raw-edge appliqué to create ...

HAMBURG, NY (WKBW-TV — When the weather is nice Jack Edson hangs one of his quilts on the porch. He's been quilting for more than four decades and his artistry has been turning up everywhere. He has a ...

Getting “Bisa Butler: Portraits” before the public has been a struggle against COVID-19 from the start. Days before the exhibition of the artist’s extraordinary and ebullient quilted portraits of ...

Rochester Hills — Nearing what she thought was the end of a quilt portrait she was creating of famed late Detroit artist Gilda Snowden, April Anue Shipp, a local fabric artist and sculptor, heard ...