Bisa Butler stitches Black history together one portrait at a time CBSVillage
— Bisa Butler's artwork has a way of stopping people in their tracks. Her life-size portraits look like they're from the strokes of a painter's brush — but Butler is a quiltmaker, weaving fabrics of all kinds into celebrations of Black life in America.
Butler said she is often inspired by historical photos, including a 1940 photo of a North Carolina family fleeing the Jim Crow South. In seven months, she transformed their story onto fabric."This family was so unified in coming so far and that they were seeking better," she said of what spoke to her about the photo.
"I feel like our history has often been either concealed, deliberately erased or ignored. And I feel that African American history is American history. We contributed to this country just as much as anybody else," Butler said.
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