The African American Textile Society also hosts the school's longest-running fashion show dating back to 1997. Dargan is accused of embezzling or misapplying $14,695 of the organization’s funds ...

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

To feed “King Cotton,” more than a million African Americans were carried off into the Deep South. That’s two and a half times the number that were brought to the United States from Africa.

Khiara Dargan, a North Carolina State University senior, is under fire for alleged embezzlement after being accused of embezzling thousands of dollars from the African American Textile Society, a ...

Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California, the second BAMPFA exhibition drawn from the Leon collection, after the transcendent Rosie Lee Tompkins show in 2020, demonstrates ...

Beneath an opulent chandelier in a sunlit salon, Imane Ayissi’s fall couture show once again fused African tradition with ...

The labor of African Americans is intricate to the very fabric of America’s history — starting from the first arrival of enslaved Africans, through the Civil War and into the stories of Black ...

The federal government revoked $460,000 in federal funding to a Berkeley, Calif., museum housing historic African-American quilts. The funds were to be used to conserve the quilts.

For the 14th annual Art and Architecture History Capstone course, students worked with staff of the Art Museum to develop the original exhibition Art & Exchange: African Textiles in the Global ...

NC State Senior Accused Of Embezzling $15K From African American Textile Society. Dargan received a $14,000 scholarship from the North Carolina Textile Foundation in 2021 after being inspired to ...