When Madras Checks meet African memory: inside the Siddi women’s kavand quilt tradition

Threads of Confluence, a travelling exhibition, tells the story of a grand African migration to India, and the export of a ...
Richmond

African-American quilts celebrate Black History Month at Colonial Williamsburg

This Appliquéd Quilt was made by Dora Smith of DeKalb County, Georgia, probably 1901, of cottons. Museum Purchase, 1996.609.1 "A Century of African-American Quilts" is on exhibit Jan. 30, 2016, ...
Morning Call PA

COLLECTOR DESCRIBES WHAT DRAWS HIM TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN QUILTS

“Eli Leon’s interest in quilts began with his fascination for things recycled out of old materials. The California-based quilt historian had amassed a large collection of traditional quilts before he ...
The Press of Atlantic City

African American quilt exhibit at Ocean City Arts Center Gallery

Nubian Heritage adopted the African Adinka symbol Sankofa and took its meaning, “Learning from the past, in building for the future” as its mission statement. They celebrate the legacy of African ...
WRAL

Eli Leon, 82, Dies; Champion of African-American Quilt Makers

Eli Leon, a psychologist, writer and collector and self-taught scholar of African-American quilts, who helped bring attention to the field and especially the quilts of Rosie Lee Tompkins, died on ...