Getting “Bisa Butler: Portraits” before the public has been a struggle against COVID-19 from the start. Days before the exhibition of the artist’s extraordinary and ebullient quilted portraits of ...

Inspired by iconic black and white photos, Bisa Butler has created life-size portraits of African Americans in quilts that explode with color. The... Bisa Butler's Quilts Feature Designs So Realistic ...

Hear this interview on our podcast, Here & Now Anytime. Artist Bisa Butler creates vibrant portraits with needle and thread, weaving culture, art and history into electrifying quilts. Butler’s pieces ...

The storytelling power of quilting is being celebrated through the latest exhibition crafted by artist Bisa Butler. Titled The World Is Yours is Butler’s beautiful collection of quilts. The show is ...

Maurice DuBois is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and co-anchor of the "CBS Evening News" in New York, the flagship evening broadcast on CBS News. He brings more than three decades of experience to ...

Bisa Butler’s intricate portrait quilts are often based on found black-and-white photographs of Black people—some famous, some anonymous, some familial. The New Jersey-based artist can spend thousands ...

Bisa Butler hopes all who see her historic ESSENCE cover “feel the immediacy of it, the urgency of what we’ve gone through in this year.” Being tapped as the vessel through which to channel our ...

Maurice DuBois is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and co-anchor of the "CBS Evening News" in New York, the flagship evening broadcast on CBS News. He brings more than three decades of experience to ...

When Bisa Butler appears on a video chat from her home studio in West Orange, New Jersey, the screen resembles one of her artworks. She sits in front of bright fabric printed with green leaves and ...

"3ft High And Rising" by Bisa Butler. (Photo by Genevieve Hanson. Courtesy of Bisa Butler and Jeffrey Deitch, New York) Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Nov. 27, 2023. Click here for ...

Inspired by iconic black and white photos, Bisa Butler has created life-size portraits of African Americans in quilts that explode with color. The exhibit is on display at Chicago's Art Institute.