When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 2-3 Where: A Middleville location to be announced Cost: $93.50 More information: To register, visit thornappleriverrippers.com. FARMINGTON HILLS, MI -- There is no end to ...
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 ...
On a Sunday morning in February, Michael C. Thorpe crouches in his mother’s living room with a mallet, hammering together the corners of a massive wooden frame. A YouTube video of Thelonious Monk ...
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 ...
NORWALK — Portraits quilted from minute pieces of fabric hang from the walls of the Sidewalk Gallery on South Main Street. In the likeness of Barack Obama, a yellow fabric printed with African lips ...
Cross-stitched images of racial violence victims over the decades can be seen on quilts at Mississippi's Jackson State University as a part of the Stitch Their Names Memorial Project. A group of about ...
Rosemary Pacha poses for a portrait with her barn quilt called “Iowa Barn and Silo” at her century farm in Brighton on May 7. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette) Buy Photo If you’ve driven through the Iowa ...