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 ...

Riche’ Richardson was raised by a close-knit Montgomery family, full of hard workers. Their lives, she said, were busy. In the midst of working as educators and nurses and construction workers, they ...

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 ...