Among the fair entries on display in the pavilion annex are the quilts. Each hangs from an overhead rack and is thoughtfully ...

From the nearly abstracted patterns featuring dozens of Black faces in the meticulous work of Sharon Kerry-Harlan to portraits inspired by real events like Donna Chambers’ celebration of President ...

The making of an American quilt requires more than skill. While a deft hand at needle and thread is certainly necessary, the end product is not a beautiful heirloom quilt without centuries of global ...

Sewing with a machine would definitely make the sewing easier and faster. But why do hand sewing? The first reason would be if you do not own a sewing machine, of course. That's pretty obvious. The ...

The man who stopped Salomea Genin on the street in West Berlin, on that August morning in 1961, smiled as if he knew her. He was a “rather handsome gentleman,” she recalls, though he would have been ...

Just before midnight in a Detroit ZIP code so dangerous it’s known as the 4820-die, a gray van was following Timothy Rives Jr. The motorist from Center Line had attracted the vehicle’s attention when ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. How do we know the age of the planets and stars?

A guest article by Florence Fetterer, principal investigator at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) in the US. Sea ice cover in the Arctic has undergone a widely reported decline in recent ...

Murals bring art to the public sphere, whether that be with a political goal, as a way of advertising or simply something to brighten up an area to make a space more welcoming. Artist and Get Creative ...

Majora’s Mask is easily the strangest, most risk-taking adventure in the Zelda series. It’s completely unlike any of Link’s other games, and delivers a tense, bizarre, and somber exploration of what ...