SIOUX CITY | Shortly after the "Wandering Spirit: African Wax Prints" exhibit went on display at the Sioux City Public Museum, director Steve Hansen saw two young girls admiring three dresses encased ...
Kean University in Union will host the Wandering Spirit: African Wax Prints exhibition at the Karl and Helen Burger Gallery from February 1 to March 3, 2017. In celebration of African History Month, ...
A new show at the Fowler Museum at UCLA explores the ideas of appropriation and ownership of African dress, and how African history and culture is communicated through the printed fabrics. African ...
In a small shop nestled inside the heart of Accra, Patience Golo prepares to stitch yards of African wax print for a wedding dress she is making for a client. The fabric is rich in color: pops of ...
Textile pattern by Constance Girard for Vlisco on view in Vlisco: African Fashion on a Global Stage (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) The story of Vlisco begins not in Dakar, Lagos, or Accra, ...