EditorialCrystal Lucas-Perry, center, as an incarnation of Blackness who bursts onto the stage wearing a quilt, in “Ain’t No Mo’,” at the Belasco Theater in New York, Nov. 18, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialA quilt in the series from the textile artist Bisa Butler, which she based on a 1970s photograph of a young Black couple with their arms interlaced, in her studio in Jersey City, N.J., April 18, 2023. (Sasha Arutyunova/The New York Times)
EditorialA quilt in the series from the textile artist Bisa Butler, which she based on a 1970s photograph of a young Black couple with their arms interlaced, in her studio in Jersey City, N.J., April 18, 2023. (Sasha Arutyunova/The New York Times)
EditorialNatalya Kornblum-Laudi’s red checkered quilt titled “Where I lay,” featuring snippets from a letter that she wrote in response to a breakup, on display at the one-night-only event “Why Is Everyone Breaking Up Right Now?,” in Brooklyn, Feb. 14, 2023. (Ali Cherkis/The New York Times)
EditorialA quilt, meant to mourn those lost and show solidarity with those living with AIDS, in the Museum of Broadway at Times Square in New York, Nov. 22, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialAshley Pierre-Louis as a Quilt Being in Part 2 of the work “Inside/Outwards,” by the choreographer Emily Johnson, at New York Live Arts, Oct. 20, 2022. (Caitlin Ochs/The New York Times)
EditorialAn elaborate wedding dress by the firm L.P. Hollander, whose founder was an abolitionist, in a scene created by film director Radha Blank that includes a woven “quilt,” or veil that acts as a reference to both African beading and braiding and reads “We Good. Thx!,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute's exhibit, “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” in New York, May 1, 2022. (Charlie Rubin/The New York Times)
EditorialMelinda McClanahan holds a quilt she made out of shoulder pads that her sister, Rue Mcclanahan, cut from her “Golden Girls” costumes, at the GoldenCon fan convention in Chicago, April 22, 2022. (Evan Jenkins/The New York Times)
EditorialThe two children of teacher Rachel Red-Horse dressed in Kate Quinn clothes, and on a Kate Quinn quilt, in Waipahu, Hawaii, April 4, 2022. (Michelle Mishina Kunz/The New York Times)
EditorialClockwise from top left: A pair of Muhammad Ali’s boxing boots; a branding iron used on enslaved people; an Army of the James Medal, given to Black American soldiers for bravery; a pro-Ku Klux Klan quilt; an anti-Jim Crow pamphlet handed out by Henry Wallace’s campaign during his 1948 presidential run; a civil rights-era NAACP cap. (DeSean McClinton-Holland/The New York Times)
EditorialClockwise from top left: A pair of Muhammad Ali’s boxing boots; a branding iron used on enslaved people; an Army of the James Medal, given to Black American soldiers for bravery; a pro-Ku Klux Klan quilt; an anti-Jim Crow pamphlet handed out by Henry Wallace’s campaign during his 1948 presidential run; a civil rights-era NAACP cap. (DeSean McClinton-Holland/The New York Times)
EditorialClockwise from top left: A pair of Muhammad Ali’s boxing boots; a branding iron used on enslaved people; an Army of the James Medal, given to Black American soldiers for bravery; a pro-Ku Klux Klan quilt; an anti-Jim Crow pamphlet handed out by Henry Wallace’s campaign during his 1948 presidential run; a civil rights-era NAACP cap. (DeSean McClinton-Holland/The New York Times)
EditorialClockwise from top left: A pair of Muhammad Ali’s boxing boots; a branding iron used on enslaved people; an Army of the James Medal, given to Black American soldiers for bravery; a pro-Ku Klux Klan quilt; an anti-Jim Crow pamphlet handed out by Henry Wallace’s campaign during his 1948 presidential run; a civil rights-era NAACP cap. (DeSean McClinton-Holland/The New York Times)
EditorialLJ Roberts, an artist whose textile art weaves together queer and trans histories, works on a collaged quilt work tentatively titled, “Out to Sea, Out to See, You and You and You and Me,” in a studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn, Sept. 22, 2021. (Caroline Tompkins/The New York Times)
EditorialMadeleine Fugate, 14, who has created a COVID-19 Memorial Quilt ? inspired by the AIDS Memorial Quilt of the 1980s ? of fabric squares donated by people who lost loved ones to the virus, at her home in Los Angeles, Calif., July 17, 2021. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialMadeleine Fugate, a middle schooler in Los Angeles, June 13, 2021, made a memorial quilt to honor those who died during the pandemic. (Isadora Kosofsky/The New York Times)
EditorialA hand-stitched quilt on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art's exhibit "The Quilts of Gee's Bend" in New York, Jan. 25, 2003. (Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times)
EditorialThe central design of an AIDS quilt panel friends made to honor the memory of Tom Rauffenbart, inspired by a 1989 painting by David Wojnarowicz, his partner, in New York, Aug. 7, 2020. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
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