Harriet Powers lived in Georgia in the 1800s and is considered to be at the forefront of the African American story quilt tradition. Only two of her quilts survived — and they were recently exhibited ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Harriet Powers, an African American farm woman of Clarke County, Georgia, made this quilt in about 1886. She exhibited ...

Economist Betsey Stevenson shares the latest data on the impact of the pandemic on women in the workforce, and our listeners weigh in with their parenting stories. And, Harriet Powers, who lived in ...

Harriet Powers died more than a century ago, but this Athens woman who was a former slave is remembered today as one of the most important figures in the culture of quilt making. A quilt that Powers ...

ATHENS —Years ago, quilting friends Sandy Benjamin-Hannibal and Peggy Hartwell came to Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery on Fourth Street, looking for the grave of Harriet Powers, an African American quilter ...

WESTPORT — A quilt fashioned by Harriet Powers made its way from the Westport Historical Society to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1964. And now it’s part of the MFA’s exhibit Fabric of a Nation ...

Church groups. Fourth graders, living in a World War II internment camp. Political activists. Gay pornographers. Their stories, and others — told with more than 50 quilts, sewn over 300 years — are on ...

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One of the most important things hanging on the wall at “Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories,” which just opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, isn’t a quilt at all. Rather, it’s a swatch of pale, ...