Bibliography of Resources on African American Quilters

  • Arnett, William. The Quilts of Gee’s Bend: Masterpieces from A Lost Place. Atlanta: GA: Tinwood Books, 2002.
  • Benberry, Cuesta. Always There: The African-American Presence in American Quilts. Louisville, KY: The Kentucky Quilt Project Inc., 1992.
  • Benberry, Cuesta. Piece of My Soul: Quilts by Black Arkansans. Fayetteville, AK: University of Arkansas Press, 2000.
  • Brackman, Barbara. Facts and Fabrications: Unraveling the History of Quilts and Slavery. C & T publications, 2006.
  • Callahan, Nancy. The Freedom Quilting Bee. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1987.
  • Cameron, Dan. Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold’s French Collection and Other Story Quilts. University of California Press, 1998.
  • Cubbs, Joanne. Mary Lee Bendolph: Gee’s Bend Quilts and Beyond. Atlanta, GA: Tinwood Books, 2006.
  • Ezell, Nora. My Quilts and Me: The Diary of an American Quilter. Montgomery, AL: Black Belt Press, 1999.
  • Freeman, Roland. A Communion of the Spirits. Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press, 1997.
  • Something to Keep You Warm: Quilts from the Mississippi Heartland. Jackson, MS: Mississippi Historical Museum, 1981.
  • Fry, Gladys-Marie. Stitched from the Soul: Slave Quilts from the Ante-Bellum South. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
  • Grudin, Eva Unger. Stitching Memories: African-American Story Quilts. Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, 1990.
  • Leon, Eli. Who’d Thought It: Improvisation in African-American Quiltmaking. San Francisco: San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1987.
  • Heffley, Scott. Bold Improvisation: Searching for African American Quilts – The Heffley Collection. Kansas City: Kansas City Star Books, 2007
  • Hicks, Kyra. Martha Ann’s Quilt for Queen Victoria. Plano, TX: Brown Books Publishing Group, 2006.
  • Hicks, Kyra. This I Accomplish: Harriet Powers' Bible Quilt and Other Pieces Paperback. Black Threads Press, 2009.
  • Hicks, Kyra. Black Threads: An African American Sourcebook. MacFarland and Company, 2002.
  • Huff, Mary E. Johnson. Just How I Picture It in My Mind: Contemporary African American Quilts from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art. Montgomery, AL: River City Publishing, 2007.
  • Leon, Eli. Who’d Thought It: Improvisation in African-American Quiltmaking. San Francisco: San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1987.
  • Lyons, Mary E. Stitching Stars: The Story Quilts of Harriet Powers. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1993.
  • MacDowell, Marsha. African American Quiltmaking in Michigan. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 1997.
  • Mazloomi, Carolyn. Spirits of the Cloth: Contemporary African American Quilts. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1998.
  • Threads of Faith: Quilts from the Women of Color Quilters Network. New York: Museum of Biblical Art, 2003.
  • Carolyn. Textural Rhythms: Quilting the Jazz Tradition. West Chester, OH: Paper Moon Publications, 2007.
  • Quilting African American Women’s History: Our Challenges, Creativity and Champions. Ohio Historical Society. 2008
  •  Journey of Hope: Quilts Inspired by President Barack Obama. Voyageur Publications. 2010.
  •  And Still We Rise:Race, Culture and Visual Conversations. Schiffer Publications, 2015
  • Conscience of the Human Spirit: The Life of Nelson Mandela. Michigan State University Museum, 2016.
  • Visioning Human Rights in the New Millennium. Schiffer Publishing, 2019.
  • We Who Believe in Freedom. Paper Moon Publishing, 2019.
  • Yours for Love and Country: The Life of Col. Charles Young. Paper Moon Publishing, 2019.
  • Perry, Regenia A. Harriet Powers’s Bible Quilts. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1994.
  • Ringgold, Faith. The French Collection: Part I. New York: being My Own Woman Press, 1992.
  • We Flew Over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold. New York: Bulfinch Press, 1995.
  • Thompson, Robert Farris. Accidentally on Purpose: The Aesthetic Management of Irregularities in African Textiles and African-American Quilts. Figge Art Museum, 2007.
  • Tobin, Jacqueline L. and Raymond G. Dobard. Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad. New York: Doubleday, 1999.
  • Turner, Patricia. Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters. University Press of Mississippi, 2009.
  • Wahlman, Maude Southwell. Signs and Symbols: African Images in African-American Quilts. New York: Studio Books, 1993.

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Source: Women of Color Quilters Network (wcqn.org)
The African American Quilters of Baltimore
P. O. Box 31528,  Baltimore, Maryland 21207