That The Nation has what appears to be an in-house quilter continues to tickle me. Really love Sylvia Hernandez' most recent quilt honoring John Lewis - the VOTE snowflake is very cool

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/john-lewis-american-wisdom/

Another story about the Without a Net exhibit of 3-D quilts at the International Quilt Museum - I found this one more engaging about the artist’s motives for what she does and there’s more (and better) pics

https://archive.ph/Yio3d

At first I thought these were Bisa Butler quilts, but they aren’t — they’re Eugene Poole Jr. quilts and they are amazing!

I know the history of Black jockeys comes up around Derby time every year, but what this man is creating to celebrate their legacy is incredible

https://www.lpm.org/news/2025-04-17/quilts-show-black-kentucky-derby-jockeys-in-full-color-and-scale

Go get ‘em, Mary Sue!

How Trump Infuriated America’s Quilters and Crafters

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2025/apr/14/how-trump-infuriated-americas-quilters-and-crafter/

I like posting #QuiltingNews and museum/gallery shows. It's usually fun for me. But I have mixed feelings about posting this article and the link to the show. The idea of quilts made during war by military men is interesting, but this particular exhibit feels celebratory of colonialism

Knowing about quilting's unsavory past is important, but am I raising awareness or hiding that past behind the cool quilts?

Article:
https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2025/04/annette-geros-show-in-australia.html

Exhibit:
https://www.cairnsartgallery.com.au/whats-on/exhibitions/war-quilts

I think this is the second quilt craftivism out of Utah I’ve seen recently —

https://www.kuer.org/politics-government/2025-04-04/protest-quilts-are-an-age-old-art-soon-each-of-utahs-dc-delegation-will-get-one

This article describes a new exhibit at IQM that features mechanized, sculpted quilts. The idea of a quilt that moves is fascinating to me - the museum director says they’ve shown several before but it’s nothing I’ve ever heard of (there's a very brief video in the story)

https://www.nebraskanewsservice.net/arts_and_entertainment/lions-and-tigers-and-bears-oh-my-lincoln-exhibit-shows-quilts-can-be-more-than/article_c6d9ca01-1169-459d-8922-5812bd3d74e4.html

I love how Karen Nyberg continues to marry both her passions - quilting and space

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-040425a-lunar-quilts-earth-to-space-kennedy-center-astronaut-karen-nyberg.html

Quilt activism in the news -

"Who would you be if you had the freedom to live into the fullness of who you are?

That’s the question a new art installation put to transgender and nonbinary Americans across the country, asking them to weave all their joys, frustrations and hopes into more than 250 panels that will form a massive quilt"

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/us/gallery/trans-visibility-freedom-to-be-quilt/index.html

There've been a lot of articles about the Gee's Bend Airing of the Quilts exhibit lately, but I like how this one focuses on letting a single quilter, Mary Lee Bendolph, speak

https://www.birminghamtimes.com/2025/03/mary-lee-bendolph-one-of-the-most-revered-gees-bend-quiltmakers/

The quilters of Gee's Bend have been named one of Adidas’ 2025 Honoring Black Excellence (HBS) winners, with the company issuing a limited-edition collection of NCAA jerseys based on their work

Lots of recent coverage, though I didn't find good close ups of all the jerseys (yet) --

https://www.si.com/fannation/sneakers/on-court/the-amazing-story-behind-the-quilt-pattern-on-adidas-basketball-jerseys

https://www.contrabandcamp.com/p/parable-of-the-sewers

https://www.essence.com/lifestyle/gees-bend-quiltmakers/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyW4qReZBqU

First heard about this quilter recently, but here's a more in-depth story about Sunshine Joe

His sewing origin story is delightful

https://ket.org/program/inside-louisville/quilting-with-sunshine-joe/

Greenville NC exhibit of quilts honoring the children killed at Uvalde - not many photos of the quilts, but a nice piece explaining the artist Jo-Ann Morgan’s work

https://www.reflector.com/news/local/fabric-memorials-quilts-celebrate-lives-of-students-lost-in-uvalde-school-shooting/article_fa41517c-0455-11f0-8e67-2710990579db.html

Video about Gary Tyler, a quilter incarcerated for 42 years for a crime he did not commit

https://www.nbcmiami.com/on-air/as-seen-on/voices-reclaiming-his-time-one-quilt-at-a-time/3555669/

Bad day for art news under America’s fascist regime. This is the second article I’ve posted, two completely different problems — censorship this time

Nothing unscathed

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/01/art-museum-of-americas-exhibit-trump-dei

I mentioned Art in Embassies just yesterday, noting how much it had done to the raise the profiles of many Black American quilters

The article looks at whether the program is or isn’t still buying art given government cutbacks in foreign aid. Like everything right now, it’s a fucking mess

There really isn’t anything escaping this administration’s clutches unscathed

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-cut-lifesaving-foreign-aid-as-state-department-planned-to-buy-expensive-art-for-embassies

New exhibit featuring Black American quilters at the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, “We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists”

Some of these artists were featured in #CelebrateBlackQuilters this year but it looks like I have a bunch of new names to research for #BlackHistoryMonth 2026!

Exhibit:
https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/black-women-quilters

Related article:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/from-the-antebellum-south-to-the-civil-rights-movement-black-american-women-have-long-told-their-stories-through-quilts-180986106/

Stolen quilt returned! Love a happy ending

https://www.timminstoday.com/local-news/were-just-glad-its-back-quilt-stolen-in-timmins-returned-10276931

QuiltCon 2025 winners!

Usually, I’m a little iffy on the Best in Show, there’s always one or more others that I would have chosen

But this time, I opened this website and was “Yep, I don’t even have to see anything else. That’s obviously the Best in Show”

https://quiltcon.com/quiltcon-2025-winners/