The renowned artist’s exuberant portraits celebrate Black history and take the form to a new level By Jacoba Urist Photographs by Celeste Sloman Bisa Butler’s portrait of Harriet Tubman began with a ...

The storytelling power of quilting is being celebrated through the latest exhibition crafted by artist Bisa Butler. Titled The World Is Yours is Butler’s beautiful collection of quilts. The show is ...

Bisa Butler’s new show translates both photographs of Black figures and hip-hop lyrics into intricate textile art. Credit... Supported by Text by Joshua Needelman Photographs and Video by Sasha ...

Look at the front of a quilt and you see colorful pieces of fabric arranged to make a pleasing work of art. Step closer and you may see another type of art: stitches in the shape of stars, swirls or ...

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 ...

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.” ...

NORTH SALT LAKE, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Handi Quilter, the world’s leading manufacturer of longarm quilting machine systems, and a member of the Premier Needle Arts family of companies, ...

Bisa Butler thought her life as an artist was over. It was 1995, her final year at Howard University, and the fine art major, pregnant with her first daughter, found herself overcome with unbearable ...

Jenny Doan is nibbling on a plate of andouille pumpkin penne at Blue Sage, a restaurant with soft lighting and black cloth napkins. Once a bankrupt California housewife, she’s lunching with four of ...

Bernina of America, the world’s premier manufacturer of home sewing, quilting and embroidery machines for more than 120 years, is pleased to introduce its first Longarm quilting machine, the Bernina Q ...

A lot has changed in the world of quilting since the quaint bees of centuries past. “Quilting has come a long way,” explains Darlene Woelfle of Serendipitous Quilting Studio. “Years ago a bunch of ...