Read more at Women’s Wear Daily.

Ralph Lauren has partnered with Gee's Bend textile artists Claudia Pettway Charley and Loretta Pettway Bennett for Ralph Lauren x Gee's Bend.

Read more at the Alabama Political Reporter.

Gee’s Bend has announced the grand opening of Willie Quill’s Quilt Studio & Pantry, the Wilcox County community’s newest visitor attraction and the first artist-run quilt studio in Gee’s Bend to regularly welcome the public.

Read more at AL.com

Visitors to Gee’s Bend will now have a new way to sample the sights and sounds of the area’s world-renowned artists.

Willie Quill’s Quilt Studio & Pantry will open Saturday, July 18, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Boykin as the first artist-run studio in Gee’s Bend. The grand opening will feature quilt sales, storytelling, local food and children’s activities.

Read more at The Tuscaloosa News.

Recently, the Gee's Bend quilters held a Spring Yard Show, where the quilters displayed their work hung on lines in front of their homes. The display helped the public browse the quilts and get to know the quilters.

See photos from the day at The Tuscaloosa News.

Read more at The Selma-Times Journal.

The renowned quilters of Gee’s Bend will open their yards to the public Saturday, April 25, for the Gee’s Bend Spring Yard Show, a community-led event showcasing the region’s rich heritage.

Read more at the Alabama Political Reporter.

Nearly a dozen Gee’s Bend quilters captivated 25,000 attendees in North Carolina, sharing the bold artistry and history of their craft.

American Museum and Gardens, Bath, UK, February 14 - June 21, 2026

Kith & Kin: the Quilts of Gee’s Bend celebrates the extraordinary work of a group of African American women from a remote river island community in Alabama which embodies a 200-year tradition of making quilts that hold both profound artistic and political significance.  

Read more at the Alabama Political Reporter.

The 2025 Airing of the Quilts Festival drew its largest crowd ever, generating more than $700,000 in visitor spending for the Black Belt.

National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY, August 1 – December 28, 2025

A testament to the survival of ancestral knowledge systems, the exhibition Whiles I Yet Live: Matriarchy and Generational Exchange in Gee’s Bend presents a selection of over twenty quilts, spanning nearly a century of artistic practice within the community.

Read more at Blavity.

When Adidas tapped the Quilters of Gee’s Bend for its 2025 Honoring Black Excellence campaign, the women behind the iconic quilts were stunned — not because their work lacked value, but because the world was finally catching up to what their community has always known.