Artist Bisa Butler has been called a modern-day Griot. But instead of using words to tell stories, she uses stitches and cloth. Her quilts have graced the covers of magazines, and she created the ...

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Brilliantly colored and full of visual drama, Bisa Butler’s larger-than-life sized quilted portraits are nearly indistinguishable from paintings. Creating works that have appeared on the cover of Time ...

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.

NEWARK, N.J. -- As we continue to celebrate Black History Month, CBS2's Maurice DuBois met Bisa Butler, an artist who's elevated quilt making to the walls of some of our finest museums. She does it at ...

Dear Mama, 2019. Collection of Scott and Cissy Wolfe; Broom Jumpers, 2019. Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Purchase with the Belle and Hy Baier Art Acquisition Fund. Photograph by Margaret Fox (Bisa ...

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 is an artist who makes quilts that are so finely detailed they look like paintings. Some art watchers say her Technicolor portraits of Black people are transforming the entire medium of ...

The artist's life-size images explode with color and are inspired by iconic black and white photos. Her work is on display at Chicago's Art Institute through Sept. 6 At the top of the Grand Staircase ...