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 ...

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 ...

Inspired by iconic black and white photos, Bisa Butler has created life-size portraits of African Americans in quilts that explode with color. The... Bisa Butler's Quilts Feature Designs So Realistic ...

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.” ...

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 ...

Riche’ Richardson was raised by a close-knit Montgomery family, full of hard workers. Their lives, she said, were busy. In the midst of working as educators and nurses and construction workers, they ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each of the portraits is a quilted collage made out of pieces of cloth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The 50th woman to fly ...

Iowa City Parks and Recreation Department director and artist Juli Seydell Johnson stands alongside a quilt titled "Reaching for the Sun." Seydell Johnson made the quilt, which is inspired by ...