Inspired by iconic black and white photos, Bisa Butler has created life-size portraits of African Americans in quilts that explode with color. The... Bisa Butler's Quilts Feature Designs So Realistic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEWARK, N.J. -- As we continue to celebrate Black History Month, CBS2's Maurice DuBois met Bisa Butler, an artist who's elevated ...

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When Bisa Butler started to create her art, she knew she wanted it to be more than just portraits. She wanted to represent the energy and vibrancy of African American life. Her quilted masterpieces ...

Dear Mama, 2019. Collection of Scott and Cissy Wolfe; Broom Jumpers, 2019. Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Purchase with the Belle and Hy Baier Art Acquisition Fund. Photograph by Margaret Fox At ...

Click here for the original audio and to read more. Bisa Butler weaves Black history, the Black diaspora and Black life into her quilted portraits. She uses fabric with bright colors to "paint" the ...

Black American textile artist Bisa Butler has taken the art of quilting to the next level, bringing the genre from the blankets your granny used to make to an art that only the ancestors could dream ...

National Quilt Day falls in March during Women's History Month. It was established in 1991 by the National Quilting Association to pay homage to quilters across the country. While other forms of art ...

Bisa Butler is an artist who makes quilts that are so finely detailed they look like paintings. Some art watchers say her Technicolor portraits of Black people are transforming the entire medium of ...

Maurice DuBois is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and co-anchor of the "CBS Evening News" in New York, the flagship evening broadcast on CBS News. He brings more than three decades of experience to ...