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Recent Exhibitions:
Aug 2008
ArtCrawl Harlem II
Canvas Paper and Stone Gallery
Jul 2008
Portraits in Blue: JVC Jazz Visual Art Event with IAM
Canvas Paper and Stone Gallery
12 Sep to 26 Oct 2007
SUSTENANCE, an exhibition about sources of strength,
inspiration, support, and nourishment.
NEXT Gallery, Metropolitan College of New York
2006
"We, Too, are Book Artists"
An Exhibition of African American Book Art
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
1 Sep to 1 Dec 2005
Harlem Is - Art: A Celebration of Weusi Artists
Hamilton Landmark Galleries. NEW YORK (NY).
Oct 2000 - Jan 2001
"Spirits of the Cloth:
Contemporary Quilts by African American Artists"
Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery
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I
was born and raised in Harlem where I was inspired to become
an artist at age 10.(My early adventures as a young Harlem
artist are chronicled in two books
I authored and illustrated-"Peaches" (Lothrop, Lee and
Shepard) and "Wilhemina Jones, Future Star" (Dell Books)published
in1975 and 1978. They are out of print but available at
amazon.com.
I am a painter, author, printmaker, illustrator, murualist
, teacher and currently a fiber artist. I am/ self taught
and I work intuitively fusing my fine art "training" with
the traditional womens needlework taught to me by my mother,
Lottie K. Porter and grandmother Hattie Kilgo. Sewing ,beading,
embroidery and quilting combine into what is now known as
ArtQuilts.
I've
made wearable art since the 60s and exhibited my work worldwide
including at Harlem State Office Building Gallery, the Shromberg,
Countee Cullen Library, Genesis 11 Museum in Harlem, American
Craft Museum and the Smithsonian Institute.
A Week in the Life of a Black Woman Artist 2006.
Accordion binding; over dyed cotton fabric, paint, beads, photo transfers, angelina fibers and found materials.
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