National Retail Federation marketing director carries on tradition of African-American story quilting Hicks A college date in 1990 turned out to be a life-changing moment for Kyra Hicks. Hicks, then an MBA student at the University of Michigan, was visiting her boyfriend in Cincinnati when she spotted a newspaper ad about an exhibit at the Taft Museum of Art featuring African-American story quilts. Sounds interesting, she thought, so the couple paid the museum a visit. "I walked into the museum and I saw that exhibit and I was like: I want to do this," she said. Black Barbie by Kyra Hicks, in collection of the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y.Photo: Kyra Hicks Hicks… Read More