Bisa Butler’s intricate portrait quilts are often based on found black-and-white photographs of Black people—some famous, some anonymous, some familial. The New Jersey-based artist can spend thousands ...

Getting “Bisa Butler: Portraits” before the public has been a struggle against COVID-19 from the start. Days before the exhibition of the artist’s extraordinary and ebullient quilted portraits of ...

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 ...

In Hold Me Close, Bisa Butler presents a powerful new series of quilted portraits that speak to the urgency of empathy, the weight of history, and the need for tenderness in times of crisis.

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 ...

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 ...

Inspired by iconic black and white photos, Bisa Butler has created life-size portraits of African Americans in quilts that explode with color. The exhibit is on display at Chicago's Art Institute.

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 ...

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Washington Post senior critic-at-large Robin Givhan speaks with textile artist Bisa Butler about her work depicting historical and contemporary figures, her latest piece depicting an all-Black ...

The Art Institute of Chicago has announced Bisa Butler: Portraits, on view from November 16-April 19, 2021. Showcasing 22 quilts in four galleries, the exhibition engages with themes of family, ...

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 ...