Thalia Butts reviews the extravagant portrayals and traditions of HBCU marching bands found in Keith Duncan: Battle of the Bands, The HBCU Marching Band Series at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans.

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.