My work recovers lives historical records omit in their telling of the way things were. Through writing and collaging verses, I draw on my experiences in historic preservation, cultural archiving, faith, politics, art, and the legacies handed down from porch-talk storytellers. These stories engage memory, belonging, home, and the past that we carry with us.
The series HEIRLOOMS assembles vintage linens, laces, cottons, and buttons in narratives that archive generations of Black women and articulate a tradition of giving so the future line might know and understand.
HEIRLOOMS
Solo Exhibition
Academy Art Museum
Easton, Maryland
April 5 - July 14, 2024
Two Sit
Mixed media collage on paper
Fannie
Mixed media collage on paper
Fannie: Census 1880
Mixed media collage on paper
When There's Time
Mixed media collage on paper
The Children of Slaves Remember
Mixed media collage on paper
Yellow Flowers on the Schoolhouse Road
Mixed media on paper
Girl at the Fence
Mixed media collage and heirloom textiles on paper.
Blue Lace
Mixed media collage on paper with vintage textiles
When She Was a Girl #2
Mixed media collage on paper
American, Multidisciplinary artist
Based in Washington, DC and the Maryland Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay
Faculty, Department of English, Howard University
Exhibitions
2024 Heirlooms, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD
2024 Civil Rights at 60, DC Commission on Arts & Humanities, Washington, DC
2023 HEIRLOOMS from Behind Her Gaze, private gallery, Washington, DC
2023 Memories of a Dusty Road, Asbury United Methodist Church, Washington, DC
2022 Behind Her Gaze, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Artist Residencies
2023 Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
2022 Columbus Museum of Art Aminah Robinson Residency, Columbus, OH
Artist Fellowships
2023, Solo Exhibition Artist Fellowship, Academy of Art, Easton, MD
2022 American Antiquarian Society, Wooster, MA
2022-2023 DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC
2021-2022 DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC
2020-2021 DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC
2019 Community of Writers, High Sierra Mountains, CA
2018 Kimbilio, Taos, NM
2017 Kimbilio, Taos, NM
2015 AROHO, Ghost Ranch, Santa Fe, NM
2015 Callaloo, Brown University, Providence, RI
Permanent Collections
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus OH
Private Collections in Washington, DC, Atlanta, GA, and Houston, TX
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