| Summary: | Quilter Michael A. Cummings was born on November 28, 1945 in Los Angeles, California. Cummings earned his B.A. degree in art history from SUNY-Empire State College in 1979. He became a technical director for the New York Department of Cultural Affairs in 1972. After working to create a cloth banner for an exhibition in 1973, Cummings taught himself to quilt, and held his first solo exhibition at the Studio Museum of Harlem in 1976. He held several positions in arts education until 1980 when he joined the New York State Council on the Arts as an arts program analyst. Cummings' work can be seen at the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Art and Design, the California African American Museum, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., and in the private collections of George C. Wolfe, Whoopi Goldberg, Bill Cosby, and Alonzo and Tracy Mourning.
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