African Textiles in Iowa," a current exhibit at the Stanley Museum of Art, highlights a selection of textiles from a ...

Hassan Hajjaj, “Afrikan Boy” (2012), Metallic Lambda print on 3mm Dibond in wood frame with Joly sardine tins ( image courtesy Taymour Grahne Collection, via fowler.ucla.edu) The bold, brightly ...

Kibibi Ajanku is an indigo artist and textile artist living in Baltimore. Ajanku has been an artist for her entire life. “I sat at the knees of my quilt-making grandmother,” Ajanku said. “My other ...

Storytelling comes in all forms. In the Stanley Museum’s latest exhibit, entitled “Weaving Narratives,” it comes in the form of textiles curated from different African cultures throughout Iowa. The ...

Stephen Hamilton was inspired to work in textile art after a visit to Nigeria. The public art piece going on display in May will feature the merging of African textile art with modern styles. Rubio: ...

The entrance to the African art galleries at the Mint Museum Randolph. The Mint Museum Randolph’s African art galleries are open again after closing for an extensive, multiyear renovation. The ...

The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize, designed to elevate the work of contemporary African artists, has found its latest artist to thrust into the spotlight. Inspired by Moroccan architecture and ...

In the hullaballoo of London’s Frieze Week, the slick and rather discreet 1-54 contemporary African art fair can slip by unnoticed. Smartly tagging onto the much larger fair without quite stepping out ...

It doesn’t sound as if they had to give her the hard sell. “This was a co-organization between ourselves and our colleagues at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (in New York City),” says Dr. Kristen ...

Sierra Leone-born textile artist Elizabeth Anyaa will have her first major exhibition since the COVID-19 pandemic this fall at the Petersburg Area Art League. Anyaa, a globally recognized artist, ...

After six years, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) is finally shining a spotlight on the transformative gift of over 3,000 African American quilts it received from the late ...

I’m at Art X Lagos, West Africa’s leading international art fair that takes place every November at Victoria Island’s Federal Palace Hotel. The maze-like marquee attracts hundreds of thousands of art ...