Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "To begin a quilt, I have to be inspired by something," says Cummings. In the '50s and the '60s art world, there was hardly any ...

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 ...

Sharon Sewell remembers waking up in the middle of the night as Hurricane Michael was approaching landfall along the Gulf Coast last month. She felt like she needed to figure out a way to help those ...

Fourteen quilts hang in the center gallery at the International Quilt Study Center & Museum, powerful abstract pieces that evoke nature and movement, rigidity and order, and introspection and ...

SSGT. Michael Homcha of Douglassville was recently presented a Quilt of Valor during a presentation held at Michael’s Restaurant in Douglassville. Homcha, a 1966 graduate of Wyomissing High School, ...

There are two distinguishing qualities of Cummings' quilts: the Afro-centric subject matter steeped in cultural history of the diaspora as well as his innovative use of color. He works exclusively ...