The older generations of Gee's Bend quilters are known for one-of-a-kind designs with clashing colors and irregular, wavy lines — visual effects borne of their material constraints.

Gee’s Bend Quilters, from left, Lucy Marie Mingo, Nancy Pettway and Arlonzia Pettway work on a quilt April 6, 2006, in the Boykin nutrition center in Boykin, Ala. Target launched a limited ...

The Quilters of Gee's Bend exhibition continues through April 1 at Joyce Gordon Gallery, 406 14th St., Oakland. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesdays-Fridays and 1 to 4 p.m. Saturdays.

Gee’s Bend: Quilts occupy a special place in American culture, whether as homespun memorials such as the AIDS quilt, or as folk art from a “plain and simple” time when communal labor and ...

As late as 1969, Gee’s Bend residents had to travel 15 miles to use a telephone and 50 miles to shop at a supermarket or see a movie. Yet in a cluster of neighborhoods that never grew larger ...

The women created the quilts using repurposed school apparel. On Feb. 22, Adidas sponsored the HBCU Legacy Bowl, where athletes wore custom-made jerseys inspired by the Quilts of Gee's Bend.

The Atlanta art dealers accused in a lawsuit of taking and not returning three heirloom quilts from a woman in Gee’s Bend, Ala., have handed the quilts over to her attorney. After calling a news ...

"Gee's Bend," a play at Seattle's Taproot Theatre, takes inspiration from the black women quilters of Gee's Bend, Ala., whose quilts are displayed in museums and sell for thousands.

Over the past two decades, Gee’s Bend quilts have captured the public’s imagination with their kaleidoscopic colors and their daring geometric patterns. The groundbreaking art practice was ...

The older generations of Gee's Bend quilters are known for one-of-a-kind designs with clashing colors and irregular, wavy lines — visual effects borne of their material constraints.