For the April co-publishing feature with Oxford American, Thalia Butts pays tribute to the late Marquetta Johnson, a quilter based in Atlanta who compared her practice to jazz and inspired her students to stretch the boundaries of quilting as a medium.

Thalia Butts reviews the testimony of quilts found in Patterns in Abstraction: Black Quilts from the High’s Collection at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

Thalia Butts dives into the desaturated captured and found images found in Darrel Ellis: Regeneration at the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia.