Gwendolyn Magee 
Mississippi 
USA Ford Fellow, Crafts and Traditional Arts

Textile artist Gwendolyn Magee makes powerful images in cloth about oppression, her African American heritage, and hope. She intelligently exploits the surface, color, and pattern of pieced and stitched fabric in her narrative compositions to tell stories of pain, sacrifice, faith, and dreams. Magee maintains a studio in Jackson, Mississippi, and her work is widely exhibited. M.R.L.

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Portrait photo courtesy D.E. Magee
Full of the Faith, 2000; photo courtesy Roland Freeman