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 ...

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," ...

Photo by Janelle Patterson Barbara Robinson, 68, of Devola, shares the friendship star quilt she was given when she joined the Friendly Circle Quilt Club in 1993. MARIETTA — More than 100 years and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN ANTONIO — Every second Saturday of the month at the Carver Library, you'll find a group of women with needles and thread in hand. They're members of the African American Quilt Circle of San ...