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o donnell: long ago, quilt making took place the leap from our grandmothersathy bed covering to the walls of art museums around the world. as part of black history months see, cbs maurice dubois has the story of an artist who is making history and teaching it one stitch at a time. reporter: bisa butler s art work has a way of stopping people in their tracks. amazing. reporter: her life-sized portraits look like they re from the strokes of a painter s brush, but butler is a quilt maker, weaving fabrics of all kinds into celebrations of black life in america. i always want my portrats to be life-sized, to look the person in the eye and to grab them. reporter: butler says she is often inspired by historical photos, like this one in 1940, a sandy hook family fleeing the jim crow south. in seven months, she transformed their story onto fabric. what about this photo jumped out at you? that this family was so thinerd in coming so far,s and

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