I am a textile artist from Birmingham, AL. My work is an expansion of the southern quilting tradition, using a mixture of textiles and collage gathered in textile markets and fabric stores. These multidimensional assemblages render the realities of southern Blackness into radical new imaginings. Repositories of history, rampant with particulars, my quilt-based pieces are storytelling vehicles. They liberate imaginative territory, creating a home-place for full subjectivity and resistance. They indicate a way forward.
Quilting is a dynamic, evolving artform linking Africans in the diaspora and those on the continent. I honor tradition as I reshape it, paying homage while challenging convention. My needlework moves Black women’s legacy off the clothesline and onto museum walls.
Photo credit: Hadas