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 ...

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 ...

While the fashion industry continues to take a hit as one that contributes heavily to the pollution of the planet, one Brooklyn-based artist is focused on lessening that impact by repurposing fabrics ...

It was inevitable that Deborah Hyde, who won this year's Handi Quilter Best of Show Award for the International Quilt Festival, would become a quilter. Always interested in art and portrait drawing, ...

On a hot August afternoon, a group of prison reform advocates and families of incarcerated people flocked to a Chicago gallery space for an unusual task: quilting. But this isn’t your average ...

Inside the maximum security prison in Licking, Missouri, a group of men spend eight hours a day, five days a week, sewing quilts for local foster kids. "They may not be going home" from prison, says ...

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 ...

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