Fabrics and textiles remind Afghan Canadian artist Hangama Amiri of home. When she was a child, Amiri would visit her uncle’s Kabul tailor shop before school. And when her family fled Taliban-ruled ...

The contemporary art world has seen an uptick in artists working with both textiles and with Indigenous craft traditions, but the two strands weave together in the work of Nengi Omuku, whose paintings ...

Both of Oslyn Whizar Toscano’s grandmothers used to sew when she was growing up, and her godparents were in the textiles business. Her mother would visit the godparents’ shop and was treated to a ...

Faith Ringgold is renowned for her story quilts, which combine fabric and embroidery with painted tableaux of scenes around ...

Helen Parsons was being witty when she named her Instagram account the Helen Parsons Project, but she will soon have something in common with the '70s-era British band the Alan Parsons Project. She's ...

Students gleefully squirted hues of green paint into small trays before starting in on their carefully stenciled outline of flowers. This might sound like the beginning of a typical art class. This ...