Gwendolyn
Magee

Jackson, MS
2007 USA Fellow
This award was generously supported by the Ford Foundation.
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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.
Portrait photo courtesy D.E. Magee.
- Full of the Faith, 2000; photo courtesy Roland Freeman
