Lauren Ro is interested in baby gear (she’s a new mom) and the ins-and-outs of decorating a home. Prior to the Strategist, she was a writer at Curbed, and before that was Wes Anderson’s assistant.

Over the past few decades, the quilts of Gee’s Bend have become the type of work that one is most likely to come across in a museum. Colorful and abstract, the pieces are made by African-American ...

Claudia Pettway Charley grew up underneath the quilts of Gee’s Bend. During summer days, she remembers playing under patchworks of color that hung in quilting frames as her mother and grandmother ...

The inspired quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend turned a rural riverside community in Alabama into a highly influential destination for those interested in the confluence of heritage craft and contemporary art ...

Craftwork from the famed quilters of Gee’s Bend can be found in the collections of blue-chip institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum.

Quilts made by the women of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, are, according to The New York Times, “Some of the most miraculous works of modern art America has produced.” They’ve been immortalized on U.S. postage ...

“The design choices depend on the material you have, what colors you have, and how you feel,” declares Lue Ida McCloud, a quilter of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, about the creation of her expressive, ...

Gee’s Bend is known as living history due to the region’s generations of Black female quilters. The quilts, initially created for comfort and warmth, have become a symbol of Black survival and civil ...

A blockbuster exhibition in the early 2000’s made the women of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, famous for their visually stunning quilts. But the success didn’t translate into meaningful economic gains for their ...

If you’ve ever wanted to own a one-of-a-kind quilt from Alabama’s famed Gee’s Bend, which has produced distinctively stylized quilt masterpieces than can be viewed on display in art museums around the ...