

Textile Art & Racial Identity
In honor of the recent opening of the much-anticipated Bisa Butler exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago and with Black History Month having just wrapped up, we at MIR Appraisal Services thought it would be appropriate to consider the history of textiles in African and African American art and highlight some of the contemporary Black artists who use it as an integral part of their work. Textile has been a rich and important cultural tradition with a long history throughout