Washington Post senior critic-at-large Robin Givhan speaks with textile artist Bisa Butler about her work depicting historical and contemporary figures, her latest piece depicting an all-Black ...

Artist Bisa Butler on creating new narratives through "portrait quilts" 07:08 Artist Bisa Butler has been called a modern-day Griot. But instead of using words to tell stories, she uses stitches ...

In bright colors, at life-size scale, artist Bisa Butler portrays everyday people — on quilts Each of Butler’s quilts feature life-size figures and incorporate hundreds, sometimes even ...

Artist Bisa Butler, right, and curator Dr. Erica Warren pose for a photograph in front of Butler's work, "Southside Sunday Morning," at the Art Institute Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, in Chicago.

Bisa Butler: Portraits, her current exhibition at the world renown Art Institute of Chicago until September 6, is the first by any living artist mounted in its hallowed classical European galleries.

New Jersey artist Bisa Butler highlights African-American experience through quilt-making 02:33. NEWARK, N.J. -- As we continue to celebrate Black History Month, CBS2's Maurice DuBois met Bisa ...

In an Instagram Post to her 217K quilt-loving followers, Butler says “At long last, I’m thrilled to announce that my quilted portrait of Salt-n-Pepa will be unveiled at the famed Jeffrey ...

If there’s one thing Culture Creators is going to do, it’s give living legends their flowers.. And that they did on September 7th, at the inaugural “Artistry Unveiled” dinner honoring ...