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Spirits of the cloth : contemporary African-American quilts / Carolyn Mazloomi ; preface by Faith Ringgold ; foreword by Cuesta Benberry.

Book/Text

New York : Clarkson Potter/Publishers, c1998.

1998

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Signs & symbols : African images in African American quilts / Maude Southwell Wahlman.

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Atlanta, Ga. : Tinwood, 2001.

2001

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Signs and symbols : African images in African-American quilts / Maude Southwell Wahlman.

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New York : Studio Books in association with Museum of American Folk Art, 1993.

1993

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Signs and symbols : African images in African-American quilts / Maude Southwell Wahlman.

Book/Text

New York : Studio Books in association with Museum of American Folk Art, 1993.

1993

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Bold improvisation : searching for African-American quilts : the Heffley collection / by Scott Heffley.

Book/Text

Kansas City, Mo. : Kansas City Star Books, [2007], ©2007.

2007-2007

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Bold improvisation : searching for African-American quilts : the Heffley collection / by Scott Heffley.

Book/Text

Kansas City, Mo. : Kansas City Star Books, c2007.

2007

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Signs & symbols : African images in African American quilts / Maude Southwell Wahlman.

Book/Text

Atlanta, Ga. : Tinwood Books, 2001.

2001

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The soulful art of African American quilts : nineteen bold improvisational projects / by Sonie Ruffin.

Book/Text

Kansas City, Mo. : Kansas City Star Books, c2007.

2007

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Accidentally on purpose : the aesthetic management of irregularities in African textiles and African-American quilts / Eli Leon.

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Davenport, Iowa : Figge Art Museum, [2006], ©2006.

2006-2006

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Accidentally on purpose : the aesthetic management of irregularities in African textiles and African-American quilts / Eli Leon.

Book/Text

Davenport, Iowa : Figge Art Museum, c2006.

2006

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Bold expressions : African American quilts from the collection of Corrine Riley : May 15-November 6, 2011.

Book/Text

San Diego, CA : Mingei International Museum, c2011.

2011

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Just how I picture it in my mind : contemporary African American quilts from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts / [essay by Mary Elizabeth Johnson Huff].

Book/Text

Montgomery, Ala. : Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts and River City Publishing, c2006.

2006

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Just how I picture it in my mind : contemporary African American quilts from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts / [essay by Mary Elizabeth Johnson Huff].

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Montgomery, Ala. : Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts and River City Publishing, [2006], ©2006.

2006-2006

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Always there : the African-American presence in American quilts / Cuesta Benberry ; forewords by Jonathan Holstein and Shelly Zegart.

Book/Text

Louisville, Ky. : Kentucky Quilt Project, 1992.

1992

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Gee's Bend : the women and their quilts / John Beardsley ... [et al.] ; introduction by Alvia Wardlaw ; foreword by Peter Marzio.

Book/Text

Atlanta, Ga. : Tinwood Books ; Houston : The Museum of Fine Arts, 2002.

2002

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Stitching memories : African-American story quilts / Eva Ungar Grudin.

Book/Text

Williamstown, Mass. : Williams College Museum of Art, c1990.

1990

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Stitching memories : African-American story quilts / Eva Ungar Grudin.

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Williamstown, Mass. : Williams College Museum of Art, c1990.

1990

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Stitching memories : African-American story quilts / Eva Ungar Grudin.

Book/Text

Williamstown, Mass. : Williams College Museum of Art, [1990], ©1990.

1990-1990

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Black feminist cultural criticism / edited by Jacqueline Bobo.

Book/Text

Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2001.

2001

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Tar Beach / Faith Ringgold.

Book/Text

New York, NY : Crown Publishers, Inc., [1991]

1991-1991

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African American quilt culture : an Afrocentric feminist analysis of African American art quilts in the Midwest / by Yolanda Hood.

Manuscript

c2000.

2000

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Black threads : an African American quilting sourcebook / by Kyra E. Hicks ; with a foreword by Cuesta R. Benberry.

Book/Text

Jefferson, N.C : McFarland & Co., c2003.

2003

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Gee's Bend : the architecture of the quilt / contributions by William Arnett ... [et al.] ; edited by Paul Arnett, Joanne Cubbs, Eugene W. Metcalf.

Book/Text

Atlanta, GA : Tinwood Books, 2006.

2006

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African American quilting : the warmth of tradition / Sule Greg C. Wilson.

Book/Text

New York : Rosen Pub. Group, 1999.

1999

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Hidden in plain view : the secret story of quilts and the underground railroad / Jacqueline L. Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard.

Book/Text

New York, N.Y. : Doubleday, c1999.

1999

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The quilts of Gee's Bend / Susan Goldman Rubin.

Book/Text

New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2017.

2017-2017

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African American quiltmaking in Michigan / edited by Marsha MacDowell.

Book/Text

East Lansing, MI : Michigan State University Press : in association with the Michigan State University Museum, 1997.

1997

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Who'd a thought it : improvisation in African-American quiltmaking / Eli Leon.

Book/Text

San Francisco, CA : San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, c1987.

1987

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Sewing stories : Harriet Powers' journey from slave to artist / by Barbara Herkert ; illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton.

Book/Text

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2015]

2015

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Stitching stars : the story quilts of Harriet Powers / Mary E. Lyons.

Book/Text

New York : C. Scribner's Sons ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1993.

1993

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And still we rise : race, culture, and visual conversations / Carolyn L. Mazloomi.

Book/Text

Atglen, PA : Schiffer Publishing Ltd., [2015]

2015-2015

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The story quilts of Yvonne Wells / Stacy I. Morgan and Yvonne Thomas Wells.

Book/Text

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2024]

2024

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The story quilts of Yvonne Wells / Stacy I. Morgan and Yvonne Thomas Wells.

Book/Text

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2024]

2024

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A piece of my soul : quilts by black Arkansans / Cuesta Benberry ; with an introduction by Raymond G. Dobard.

Book/Text

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2000.

2000

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FormatBook/TextCall numberNK9112 .B457 2000Item locationOff-site

Faith Ringgold / editors, Melissa Blanchflower and Natalia Grabowska with Melissa Larner (edition 1); Nora Severson Cafritz and Fanna Gebreyesus (edition 2).

Book/Text

London : Serpentine ; Maryland : Glenstone ; Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, [2022]

2022

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Seven passages to a flight / Faith Ringgold.

Book/Text

San Diego, Calif. : Brighton Press, 1995.

1995

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The last story quilt /produced by Linda Freeman].

VHS

[United States] : L & S Video Enterprises ; [Chicago Ill.] : Home Vision, c1991.

1991

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Exhibiting blackness : African Americans and the American art museum / Bridget R. Cooks.

Book/Text

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2011.

2011

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More than just something to keep you warm : the Afro-American folk art tradition / essays by Regenia A. Perry and Roland L. Freeman ; sponsored by the Bergen County Ad Hoc Committee of Black Women's Organizations.

Book/Text

Paramus, N.J. : Bergen Museum of Art and Science, [1988]

1988

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 07-2558Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Models in the mind : African prototypes in American patchwork : January 15-March 29, 1992 / Eli Leon.

Book/Text

Winston-Salem, N.C. : Diggs Gallery : Winston-Salem State University, c1992.

1992

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 92-336Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Faith Ringgold: the last story quilt [videorecording] / produced by Linda Freeman.

VHS

Chappaqua, NY : L & S Video Enterprises, 1991.

1991

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Faith Ringgold / editors, Melissa Blanchflower and Natalia Grabowska with Melissa Larner (edition 1); Nora Severson Cafritz and Fanna Gebreyesus (edition 2).

Book/Text

London : Serpentine ; Maryland : Glenstone ; Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, [2022]

2022

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberN6537.R55 A4 2022gItem locationOff-site

African American quilting : the warmth of tradition / Sule Greg C. Wilson.

Book/Text

New York : Rosen Pub. Group, c1999.

1999

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Faith Ringgold paints Crown Heights [videorecording] / produced by Linda Freeman ; directed and written by David Irving.

VHS

Chappaqua, NY : L & S Video, c1995.

1995

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Crafted lives : stories and studies of African American quilters / Patricia A. Turner ; foreword by Kyra E. Hicks.

Book/Text

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2009.

2009

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Stitched from the soul : slave quilts from the Antebellum South / Gladys-Marie Fry with a new preface by the author.

Book/Text

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

2002-1990

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The quilt / Ann Jonas.

Book/Text

New York : Greenwillow Books, ©1984.

1984

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Stitching stars : the story quilts of Harriet Powers / Mary E. Lyons.

Book/Text

New York : C. Scribner's Sons ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1993.

1993

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