Lately, Nancy Rolland’s been having flashbacks: It’s an arid Oklahoma afternoon. From left, Kepsey Fixico and Faye Baker, both of the Muskogee Creek Nation, and Marilyn Thunder Hawk, of the Sicangu ...

As I greet Sauda Zahra and Edna C. Alston, two principal members of the African American Quilt Circle (AAQC), at a Ninth Street coffee shop and we begin to settle in, I notice that the three of us ...

SAN ANTONIO — Quilts of family, black leaders, and names of those no longer with us line the walls at Central Library and Our Lady of the Lake University. "Black women have been quilting forever," ...

WAYNESBORO As Bertha, Ruth and Florence Showalter bend over a new quilting project on its table-length frame, the handiwork of generations of Showalters -- and Heatwoles, Hostetters and other women of ...

Carmen V. Aracama's quilt provided her comfort when she needed it the most. Ten months ago, Aracama, 33, got the call every wife fears. She was told her husband had died in a motorcycle accident. She ...

Come tiptoe to the Celtic Garden, which will be blooming next week at Ellicott City’s Faithful Circle Quilt Show. This Celtic Garden, with blossoms of magenta and forest green, is not a garden at all, ...

The African American Quilt Circle of San Antonio is preserving personal, political, and historical narratives through the ancestral practice of quiltmaking. “There’s a determination not to tell the ...

A Juneteenth weekend conference in Durham, N.C., looks to establish itself as a place that carries on a cultural legacy. By Jonathan Abrams Laughter mixed with the steady hum of sewing machines as ...

An ice storm is slowing morning commuters, but there’s no stopping the 10 members of the Sewing Circle who convene at a Geneva church for their quilting bee. “When I was out of town, I missed them,” ...

www.suncoastquiltingcircle.org http://www.spcollege.edu/fimuseum/ The Suncoast Quilting Circle was established in 1981. We are a not for profit organization with over ...